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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Nuclear Power Plant Lifetime Extension: A creeping catastrophe - Bellona.org

Nuclear Power Plant Lifetime Extension: A creeping catastrophe - Bellona.org: Any discussion of nuclear disasters brings events like Chernobyl and Fukushima to mind. But the civilian nuclear industry could be facing a quieter nuclear failure. Simply put, the world’s nuclear reactors are getting dangerously old. Yet more and more often, countries operating nuclear reactors are deciding to run them for longer than they were designed …

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