Mirion Technologies

You have no idea what you're talking about, stop lying and spreading misinformation.

Commercial nuclear power plants are refueled all the time and have specific penetrations in the primary and secondary containment buildings specifically for replacing worn our parts. Do you think if something breaks inside the containment buildings they're like "oh well, time to go ahead and scrap this whole thing and head home"?

I'm not sure what you mean by "those giant concrete stacks" but I assume you mean cooling towers, which hints you've learned everything you know about nuclear power from the Simpsons. Most PWR nuclear power plants don't have cooling towers (only two have them that I know of, Catawba and Harris, probably a few more), and the cooling towers are for the non-nuclear secondary system so they're outside of the containment buildings anyway. There is absolutely no reason they would need to be torn down. BWR plants are too contaminated to try and refurbish after they've been decommissioned, but that has nothing to do with concrete or cooling towers.

Every single piece of equipment in a nuclear power plant can be replaced without having to do major structural removal and replacement, so that isn't a concern for refurbishment. Some may be repairs, but that is a far cry from what youre claiming.

I don't know if you are lying on purpose to muddy the water and spread misinformation or if you're just confidently incorrect all the time, but Lemmy would be a much better place if you took a minute to fact check your posts.

Edit to add: This article shows how common it is to extend the life of a nuclear power plant, which isn't too far from recommissioning and refurbishing a decommissioned plant.