The Cost of Caring For Elderly Nuclear Plants Expected To Rise 249
mdsolar writes with this story about the rising costs of keeping Europe's nuclear power plants safe and operational. Europe's aging nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars. Nuclear power provides about a third of the European Union's electricity generation, but the 28-nation bloc's 131 reactors are well past their prime, with an average age of 30 years. And the energy companies, already feeling the pinch from falling energy prices and weak demand, want to extend the life of their plants into the 2020s, to put off the drain of funding new builds. Closing the older nuclear plants is not an option for many EU countries, which are facing an energy capacity crunch as other types of plant are being closed or mothballed because they can't cover their operating costs, or to meet stricter environmental regulation.
Elderly Nuclear Plants? (Score:5, Funny)
I didn't know nuclear plants were powered by the elderly. They told me grandma passed, and was in a better place. No one said that was inside a reactor.
Re:Another Brilliant Revelation (Score:5, Funny)
And something positive about radiation is ... ?
Spiderman, the Hulk and microwave ovens all come to mind... ;)
Re:Elderly Nuclear Plants? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Another Brilliant Revelation (Score:3, Funny)
No need to worry, I have it on good authority from all the libertarians who frequent this site that you can easily move to a more nuclear friendly town. No need to stay in that oppressive communist hellhole where you live now.
-AndrewBuck
Re:Another Brilliant Revelation (Score:5, Funny)
An alpha particle?
Re:Another Brilliant Revelation (Score:2, Funny)
This is just gorilla marketing.
Someone should contact the appropriate authorities - this man is located in the United States, and I'm pretty sure selling primates is illegal.