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1. Questions - if you can give concise answers:
Sat Jun 8, 2024, 10:18 AM
Jun 2024

What is the lifetime of each AP1000 unit?

How many residential homes is that expected to support on average during its lifetime?

What is the volume of radioactive waste product, produced in each year of that lifetime, that will need to be safely stored, and for how long will it need to be stored?

* I am asking in terms of residential homes because that is something an average non-expert can relate to.

** Besides accident risk (which is too complex to get into here), the other big item in the overall cost equation is the waste. Let's try to put that in understandable terms. That is the point of my questions. Your posts seem to focus mainly on the benefits; but the resistance to nukes is based on costs (actual and perceived).

If the answers can't be made concise, just say so, please. I'll admit I won't read a long screed.

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