• @[email protected]
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    102 months ago

    The care and maintenance stage is part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) decommissioning strategy and spans an 80+ year period. This waiting period allows for radiation levels within the reactor core to decline and helps to facilitate a smoother demolition process. Dungeness A is due to enter the care and maintenance phase in 2027. Demolition of reactor buildings and final site clearance is planned for 2088 to 2098

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeness_nuclear_power_stations

    It’s an amazing place. I visited last month. You can overlook the power station from a nearby lighthouse.

    • Diplomjodler
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      2 months ago

      Fantastic. Just kick the can down the road and make it some future generations’ problem. Great technology!

      • @[email protected]
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        72 months ago

        Sadly that’s what the human race does. It’s nothing unique to nuclear power.

        It still baffles me, for example, that with all this technology, we still generate all this rubbish which we then bury in the ground. And we all know it. We all buy things in disposable packaging. We are all complicit.