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.> In 2013, four US nuclear power reactors were permanently shut down: Crystal River 3 in Florida, Kewaunee in Wisconsin, and San Onofre Units 2 and 3 in California. While they and the other 22 US nuclear power reactors that have been permanently shut down each operated for an average of 20.5 years, the cleanup after them, known as decommissioning, could take nearly three times as long, for an average of 60 years apiece—if they meet the target goals of the NRC. In addition, the commission requires that the cleanup work for each plant be finished before the dedicated funds set aside for that purpose by the plant’s owners are depleted. As of this writing, each facility is at a different stage in the planned decommissioning process....> A disadvantage to immediate decommissioning is that there is no place for the highly radioactive spent fuel to go as of this writing, because the federal government did not construct a long-term geologic repository for the waste as planned. Therefore, it is impossible to achieve the goal of a truly 100 percent “greenfield” status in which the slate is wiped completely clean and the reactor site has been restored to the conditions that existed before the nuclear power plant was built. - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096340214539111

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