Spain Repeals Limits On Nuclear Plant Lifetimes.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-No_limits_for_Spanish_reactors-1702117.html">No limits for Spanish reactors.

Have a nice day tomorrow.

I know in the oil & gas industry, there are plants from the 1940's still in operation. Most of the equipment was designed to last 25 years or so, but the scumbags keep using it anyway as old equipment gets "grandfathered" so that it doesn't have to meet emission standards. It doesn't surprise me when these places catch fire; it surprises me that they are still operational at all. I hope nuclear facilities aren't operated with the same lack of concern for design limitations as refineries.

to a Rolls Royce.

Almost all of the Gen II type reactors, of which the Spanish capacity - which came on line in the 1980's - were licensed for 40 years, but some Gen I nuclear plants, like the British reactor at Calder Hall - operated for 50 years.

Gen II reactors around the world are expected to be viable for 60 years, possibly longer.

Almost all of the external and internal cost of nuclear power is connected with construction of plants. It is thus wise both from an environmental and economic standpoint to operate nuclear plants for as long as is technically possible.

Up grades and extensions.

How much did Dick Cheney give the Nuclear industry?

How many new Nuclear power plants have broken ground in the US?

Nuclear power capacity worldwide is increasing steadily but not dramatically, with over 60 reactors under construction in 15 countries.

Most other countries are realizing renewables aren't going to be able to do it alone. Only in America do we have people who think "Well, in 10 years, we'll be living in a renewable paradise." Which is just delusion.

Even the anti-nuke god jacobson had to push his "renewable paradise" back from 2030 to 2050.

Ground has been broken on two new nuclear plants with a total of four reactors.

Plus TVA is rebuilding a reactor that was never finished in 1980s.

Still we are lagging way behind the rest of the world.

sciences they can't understand.

No, I'm not referring to creationists, but their close "intellectual" - if you want to call hatred of science "intellectual" - cousins, or precious exceedingly ignorant anti-nukes.

There is NOT ONE anti-nuke on the entire planet who can point to as many deaths from nuclear energy in its entire history in this country as have been killed by, say, lawn-mowers.

The science of Bethe, Weinberg, Fermi, Seaborg and Wigner, invented here in another generation, has been largely displaced in part by a set of twits who like to do things like put 2 cycle gasoline motors on perfectly good clean bicycles to make them, um, toxic. (Lazy bastards, aren't they?)

Nuclear energy will be saving lives all over the world, while shitheads here work to destroy nuclear infrastructure, thus killing people.

The fact that the Church outlawed the heliocentric universe in 17th century Italy didn't do anything for the to cause the sun and earth to move differently. It did however, cause the intellectual center of Europe to move from Italy to Britain, Holland and Italy.

The insipid resistance to nuclear energy in this country - funded by dangerous fossil fuel companies - is killing people every damn day, basically almost everyone in this country who dies from air pollution related causes.

Predictably, our conservative anti-nukes are proud of this state of affairs, because they couldn't care less about gas, oil, and petroleum related deaths.

Have a swell evening.

The 25 in China will effectively produce 75% as much energy as Germany produces, coal plants, gasoline, gas and all.

Actually, the Chinese are not interested in appealing to the clown set that has clearly never had the experience of opening a science book.

Have a nice day.

If the hardware is serviceable, keep using it. Perhaps require more rigorous inspection?