• Saleh@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    It takes decades and usually billions to decommission and deconstruct a nuclear power plant that hasn’t blown up. If parts of it blew up, it will take even longer and more money.

    Heck i recently saw an article that the full deconstruction of a nuclear power plant in Germany that operated for 16 years will take at least 50 years by the current estimate.

    • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      It takes decades and usually billions to decommission and deconstruct a nuclear power plant that hasn’t blown up.

      Lol I live a stone throw away from a nuke facility thats been in deconstruction since 1980 and just entered phase 2 this year.

      However, my comment was about being surprised it was still an operating nuclear power plant not about how long it takes to clean up or decommission a nuclear power plant.