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Renewal. so the management and regulation of our atomic fleet is, i think, totally inadequate. they overlook all of the obvious problems. most of these plants are essentially 40 years old. the nrc is not only relicensing them to run for another 20 years beyond the 40 years that they were designed to operate but many of them have been given what are called power uprates so are now allowed to run at 120% of their designed and intended capacity. you wouldn't do that to a car or anything else but they're doing it to atomic power plants. >> and how would we upgrade these facilities? how big a lift ...

Metal and most of the crucial components in nuke plants are made of metal. one of the clone plants, there are 23 basically clone reactors similar to the ones that we have melting down or have melting down in japan now, one of the 23 that we have that are exactly the same as vermont yankee, another one is oyster creek outside new york city where we are tonight. both of those are leaking basically due to the embrittlement of metal pipes. the manager of those plants are unable to find where those leaks are yet both of them are up for renewal. i'm not sure if oyster may have been renewed already b...