Multiple Nuclear Reactors Are on the Road to Restarts

They intend using the same staff who used to work there for 20 years?

C'mon, can we have some analysis of what this looks like? Does every old fat dude get a sidekick? How do you recall to statutory training levels, current OH&S, compliance with certification people who have been sitting on the porch for the last decade? Sears doesn't exist any more. You can't buy bib-and-braces their size, or tartan flock shirts with a Malboro' man smokes pocket.

Less pejoratively I think this is great. I'm in favour. But I think it should be clear you don't just pick up 600 parked workers who were living in glassine fronted boxes on the shelf next to Barbie and GI joe. Getting these people back will be costly and time consuming. And, a significant percentage of their time will be spent re-learning AND training their replacements.

The sleeving story about the steam generators: Thats being undersold. This is going to be a huge problem. They found 12%. -So do they ignore all the others or do they sleeve the entire system? And how do they check the remediation? And what duty cycle do they expect a remediated system with reduced internal diameter to have, under the old pressure/temperature cycle?

Parked warbirds in the desert are nothing compared to a disused multi-thousand tonne concrete and steel and complex machinery system which has been sitting idle, collecting rat shit and pigeon nests. "we're putting the band back together" does not really sum up how this works. I suspect they can't even replace like with like in some instances, because the supply chains for their nuclear certified whissamajig dried up when they stopped buying. -But they can probably buy them from Alibaba...