Those two questions — safety and economics — lie at the heart of the research agenda now under way on plant aging. (scientificamerican.com)
Onshore wind turbines represent a relatively mature technology, which ought to have achieved a satisfactory level of reliability in operation as plants age. (judithcurry.com)
The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident. (scientificamerican.com)