Long-term operations set to dominate nuclear agenda

Jason Deign from Nuclear Energy Insider has written an article on the operations for existing plant on nuclear agenda.

With European new-build programmes stalling, long-term operation of existing plants offers a simple and relatively cheap way to keep nuclear going for the greater good.

Cost and schedule overruns at Flamanville 3 in France and Olkiluoto 3 in Finland; Horizon handing its new-build programme to Hitachi in the UK; one thing seems certain about building new reactors in Europe: while possible, it is a complicated task.

You can read Jason’s article here.