Virtually all our containment vessels for nuke plants were designed to be scraped 29 years ago. They are made of steel and age very rapidly due to neutron bombardment. They get very brittle. A quick shut down could kill the vessel. CRACK damn, it wore out

The average age is 30 now. The older reactor vessels were licensed to go another 20 years beyond design limits. They are about to get another license to go another 20 years. This is like playing Press Your Luck.

I am betting that the nuke plant in Rochester NY will show the world how stupid and greedy our Energy Dept became.

We all know what it takes to get town hall to install a traffic light.