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    That can delay things, but ultimately it will be the US against the rest of the world and no amount of subsidies will be able to offset that.

    Coal and nuke power company provider First Energy straight up bribed the Ohio Speaker of the house with $61 million to get legislation passed to force residential electricity customers to pay extra fees to subsidize unprofitable coal and nuclear power in the state. The former Speaker is in prison now. The extra fees are still being paid by customers even today. source

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      i’d be ok with paying those costs for nuclear. Not for coal.

      Nuclear should be ran until EOL, then ideally built back up again (but that’s not happening unfortunately)

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        In Ohio this costs an average residential electricity customer $95/year they have to pay extra on top of their electrical bill.

        Nuclear should be ran until EOL, then ideally built back up again

        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:

        They bought a replacement from a mothballed nuke plant.

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

        At the same time Republican lawmakers in Ohio gave oil and gas companies full control over where wells are place, but put rules in allowing the blocking of solar and wind installations. source

        Nuclear should be ran until EOL,

        then ideally built back up again

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          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.