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Re:Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental E... by pydry on Saturday April 22, 2023 @05:11AM (#35664677)
France's are struggling to last 60.

Extending their lives to 100 will not only raise maintenance costs even further it will raise the risk of catastrophe quite significantly.

This would be a catastrophe for which e.g. American plants are insured only up to the level of 0.05% of 1 Fukushima level event.

Re:Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental E... by cyberax on Saturday April 22, 2023 @10:02PM (#35672668)
You know that material science has improved a lot since 1970-s when most of French nuclear reactors were designed, right?

In particular, annealing had been developed fairly recently: https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featurerenewal-by-annea...