Like any high capital investment industrial plant it seems that nuclear power plants face the same maintenance and end-of-life issues. How can you extent earnings lifetime AND minimise operating costs? It’s just business after all EXCEPT the consequences of failure are just a little different.
This 25 minute Al Jazeera video outlines the situation in the US where more than 100 reactors similar to Fukushima – some of them in earthquake zones or close to major cities – are now reaching the end of their working lives.
[url=http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2012/02/2012222134934495461.html]Al Jazeera video.[/url]