Omegavegeta wrote:
My Dad's currently working at Indian Point. The place is nearing it's 40th & the end of it's run. The company that owns it, wants a 20 year renewal, but isn't sure if it's going to get one (considering it's original contract was 20 years and it wasn't built to go longer than 40)so isn't investing in infrastructure unless it has too (but is still making a killing in profit. Same company owns Plymouth and a few others in the NE). In fact, they recently lost an appeal for waivers on 100 fire code violations. Guess they'll have to fix that, now.
Decommissioning will be costly.
The current lack of permanent storage for spent fuel rods is the one thing that bugs me about moving forward with new plants. The 'worry about it later' attitude seems foolish when you're talking about nuclear energy.
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It is kinda scary that he can only absorb +100x less rads than he could 40 years ago, though. I welcome new and better Nuke plants.
As far as I know, and last I much checked, there were no indications of increased risks of cancer for workers at modern nuclear energy plants. Exposure from accidental release however, would likely be a pretty tragic deal.