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I'm sure engineering a nuclear plant is way more complex than I could begin to understand... but fission energy extraction is super old. Engineers and builders should have this down to a science by now. I get the impression that every new nuke plant that is built, the people have to rediscover how fission works and how to engineer something to harness it...
Doesn't help that we have decades go by without building a plant, so it's not like the guys who knew what they were doing are still around, or keep in practice.
It's absurd when a functional and structurally sound nuke plant is shut down. The cost is sunk, just get the relatively free power from it as long as you can safely do so.
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