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Will the reactors be mothballed, converted, or torn down? Ideally if political winds change and the reactors are mothballed, could they be restarted?

I live near the Fort St. Vrain Generating Station, a nuclear plant converted to gas in the 90s, and I often think about what could have been if it had been made commercially viable earlier in its life.



All German reactors have run long past their design life span. The ones shut down first are already being decommissioned.

Proposing new reactors would be political suicide, unfortunately.




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