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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if you ignore capitalism, at some point they fatigue and break to the point where they cannot be repaired, but need to be replaced.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't have to demo a whole building to replace a machine. When they need to be replaced, replace it.

Money is literally the only excuse here. Greed is what prevents us from advancing, it's the reason we never switched from coal and why we are likely not going to last another 100 years. The old rich fuckers don't care, they aren't going to live that long anyways, and their children are going to be rich enough that even their descendants 10 generations from now will live comfortably in the hell we are turning the planet into.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it's not just about greed. The reactor itself, it's housing, and equipment around it have a definite lifetime to them, no matter how much you'd wish otherwise.

Better to decommission before it becomes unsafe, and build a next gen better new one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except Germany didn't build better new one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well that's a different problem than I'm arguing.