Wall Street Scam: Relicensing Nuclear Plants for 80 Years and Nuclear Grade Titanium Gonad Protection Shields.

Wall Street Scam: Relicensing nuclear plants for 80 years and titanium gonad protection shields.

I think the aims of this is to artificially increasing the value of the utility company and its stock price. They get a free couple of pennies worth of corporate valuation over this lie.

A lot of these plants are destroying the long term value of these plants by tolerating gross fuel failures aiming to buttress short term profits over the long term viability of the plant.   

Bet you before the 50 year old mark most of these nuclear utilities will find it at the uneconomical tipping point to keep up with the maintenance of these nuclear plants. The primary core and the coolant system radiation and contamination levels constantly build up in the life of these plants.  With the high radiation levels, these guys will find it impractical (without harming their employees) to service and perform maintenance in their primary system. They  will waste a lot of money trying to protect their employees against radiation instead of maintaining and increasing safety through upgrades and maintenance.

The Palisades CRDM housing replacement job is a prime example. Did you ever see the “Silver Lining Playbook” movie. The Entergy employees at Palisades working on the CRDM housing job wore greater than 30 pound titanium chest vest in order to protect themselves from radiation. Do you remember Pat Solatano Jr wearing a black plastic trash bag chest vest? The must also have been wearing 50 pounds lead diapers to protect their gonads.

   

Nope,  the NRC dinged Palisades on not protecting their employee's gonads. How would you like that job, an NRC radiation titanium shield gonad  protector inspector? 

NRC inspector: "Furthermore, some photos depicted workers sitting in the work area in an orientation that negates the protective qualities of the tungsten shield vest for the gonads while the dosimeter for those organs remained shielded by the tungsten shield vest."

I think this is a male sitting on a radiative hot nuclear reactor head with a titanium gonad shield...this is how not to protect you gonads!!!

Gonads definitely not protected! 

Titanium vest shield and gonads not protected(one with black vest on)

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Although no applications for an SLR have been submitted, several utilities are evaluating whether to apply for one, including Dominion Resources for its Surry Power Station Units 1 and 2 in Virginia (current license expiration dates of 2032 and 2033) as well as Exelon for its Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station Units 2 and 3 in Pennsylvania (current license 

Nearly all U.S. nuclear power plants need extension past 60 years to operate beyond 2050 

December 8, 2014

When nuclear power plants are built, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has the authority to issue initial operating licenses for a period of 40 years. Beyond that, the reactors need license renewals, and the NRC has granted 20-year license renewals to 74 of the 100 operating reactors in the U.S., according to the Energy Information Administration.

These reactors may now operate for a total period of 60 years. They represent a cumulative capacity of a little more than 69,000 MW. The NRC is currently reviewing license renewal applications for an additional 17 nuclear reactors, and expects to receive seven more applications in the next few years. 

With the bulk of the existing nuclear fleet licensed before 1990, nearly all existing reactors will be more than 60 years old by 2050. Unless a utility applies for and receives a subsequent license renewal that could further extend the operating lives of their reactors up to 20 additional years, the reactors will not generate power beyond age 60...