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The panel, known as the Neutron Landscape Group, said last week that as the aging reactors shut down over the next 5 to 10 years, the number of neutrons available for research will fall by as much as half.
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In the U.S. the five new nuclear reactors under construction will replace the four aging reactors that closed in 2013, but as older reactors like Oyster Creek in New Jersey and Vermont Yankee continue to shut down, the number of reactors in the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as well.
The addition of storage will allow customers to become even more independent, having seen retail power prices rise around 20 % over the last five years as the country's nuclear reactors have aged.
The International Energy Agency, meanwhile, has warned in one scenario that the accelerated retirement of aging U.S. nuclear reactors could see nuclear power supply drop by as much as 70 per cent by 2040.
The report states that «there is no significant age - related trend in nuclear reactor performance» with older units achieving the same level of reliability as newer ones.
Plagued by cost overruns, construction delays, and a dearth of private investment interest, the world's nuclear reactor fleet is aging quickly as new reactor connections struggle to keep up with retirements.
About 1.6 million electric customers in South Carolina are paying for the unfinished reactors that were supposed to mark a new age of nuclear power as coal - fired plants were shutting down.