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Embarrassing coal (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Arguably it has in Ohio. In 2002 a football sized hole was discovered in the top of pressure vessel eaten away by the caustic cooling water:

nice.

The plant was supposed to be EOL in 2017, but was extended to 2037.

this was pretty common with 30 year EOL plants, being extended to 50 years, with extra maintenance. France has done this almost unilaterally, and skill issued pretty hard with maintenance as of recent, but that's just a skill issue.