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A nuclear plant’s closure was hailed as a green win. Then emissions went up
(www.theguardian.com)
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The operators of the plant applied for a 20-year license renewal. New York challenged that renewal due to "environmental and safety concerns." As such, the plant was forced to shut down.
So, no this was not an EOL shutdown.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=29772
If they had to apply for a renewal, then their old license ran out.
That is exactly what EOL is.
i meant planned EOL, as most of frances reactors are quickly approaching.
So when my driver's license expires after 8 years, my driving ability has reached EOL, and I should not be able to renew. Sound logic there.
You clearly do not know what you are talking about. Other plants have been granted license renewals and are operating just fine.
I never claimed that the license couldn't be renewed nor that it wouldn't be running fine.
The license period had a pre-determined END and it's LIFEtime has not been extended.
Surely the very existence of a time limit to the license must mean that the option to not renew it after a certain time has been anticipated when the license was originally issued.
And for all that it does not matter, whether that was the correct decision or not, whether other plants had their licenses renewed orwhether these other plants are operating just fine.
You sounded like you were claiming that. Do you realize there is a difference between the end of a LICENCE and the end of something's functional life? You were claiming that because the LICENCE was only good for 40 years (the longest license the feds issued) that it was somehow the end of the PLANT'S useful life.
As I said elsewhere, they applied for a 20-year renewal, NY sued, and the high costs of fighting for the renewal led them to settle and shut it down. But NONE of that means that the plant was some falling apart scrapheap that needed closed, which is what I took from what you said.
This may be somewhat pedantic but the plant's functional life ended when the license ran out.
The planned/ hoped for EoL may have been longer but if there was a 40 year license then the end of that license is also the end of the initially licensed lifetime. Otherwise they could have just issued a 50 or 60 year license.
That doesn't mean lifetimes cannot be extended, many plants run longer than initially planned.
But not renewing a license is hardly a premature shutdown,
As already stated, I didn't make any argument about its functionality and it has no bearing to my argument.
That said, other have claimed that the plant was apparently leaking, which does sound like an argument against renewal.
You are being intentionally obtuse. Thank for helping climate change to kill us.