Pickering Nuclear plant needs to be 'un-retired' if Ontario hopes to meet zero carbon goals

[NNadir]

9. I've added myself to an ANS news feed. There's a conference...

...being held next month in Florida where one of the talks will be on the subject of extending plant life to 80 to 100 years.

My son is joining a prominent laboratory in nuclear materials research and I'll be interested in hearing from him on this topic. He's already turning me on to topics I hadn't considered.

The original understanding was that lifetimes would be 40 years. A number of issues in materials science have caused those numbers to vary. Many reactors went well beyond that. A key point concerns welds, currently an issue in the French reactors on inspection. Of course, the reactors have been poorly maintained, apparently because the Hollande administration drank the so called "renewable energy" koolaid, and took much of the revenue stream from the nuclear cash cow that might have saved Europe and sank it into the wind and solar scam. This is, anyway what I heard. It sounds credible.

All of humanity and Europeans in particular are paying for that egregious mistake.