Nuclear power plant operators want to run for eight decades, but a federal lab in Washington state found ‘critical gaps’ in knowledge about how reactors age

Nuclear power plant operators want to run for eight decades, but a federal lab in Washington state found ‘critical gaps’ in knowledge about how reactors age

Nov. 1, 2021

Federal regulators have embarked on a new era of relicensing that could eventually enable Washington’s Columbia Generating Station and many other U.S. nuclear power plants to operate for as long as 80 years.

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