Nuclear Power Plants Could Stay Open, Says Germany

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5. And then there are those of us

That think a nuclear power plant should be used until it's useful life is at an end. IMO it's part of sustainability - once something is functioning, get everything you can out of the resources and energy it took to build, within reason.

But building new reactors in the US has a long way to go to make financial sense, as the Vogtle reactors are showing.

Had we instead used the French approach, govt built and run (like TVA), we might have built another hundred reactors, but with for-profit utilities having to start paying on the debt incurred long before they become operational, it's just not going to fly.