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Hugin

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11. A few hundred years...

Reply to hunter (Reply #10)

Mon Feb 16, 2026, 12:07 PM

21 hrs ago

The US is only barely making 250 years and the seams are splitting. Contracts only last an average of three years. Who’s going to pay to watch over and maintain these reactors for a few hundred years?

If only one of them falls into the wrong hands during that time, a few hundred years. I guess it’s our great grandchildren who will find out.

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