Are We Going to Get the Politics Right?

Andreas Schulte: The longer the oldest reactors keep going, the stronger the evidence that slightly less old reactors will also be okay. He says some of these sites will become functionally immortal because even a $1 to $3, $4 billion repair job is competitive with pretty much any other way to make reliable electricity. In Europe, where it used to be that the anti-nuclear people pretended that 40 years was the maximum, that being revealed is clearly false," he said.