Sentences with phrase «run aging reactors»

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Consortium run nuclear sites also oversee the production of plutonium pits, monitor the aging of nuclear weapons, manage the production of critical nuclear components like Tritium — which helps boost the yield in all nuclear weapons and initiate the fission stage in hydrogen bombs — and operate test reactors.

In 2009 and 2010, Southern California Edison spent nearly $ 700 million — financed by ratepayers — to install two new steam generators, which were supposed to keep San Onofre's aging reactors running well into the future.