You can't take any power generator offline for any length of time, without tremendous political backlash. People need their air conditioners!

But new ones often dwarf the previous ones, and when they come online, then you can take an old, small one offline.

It's not like lifetime of those plants has been something that just came up recently. You have to plan for that and if you didn't, you need to buy power elsewhere and pay the price for your negligence. This would be the way to go if you care for safety. If you don't, you shouldn't build even more of those reactors because this technology is obviously nothing for you.

Bond issue, rate raising - all up to the public. And the public says "No more nuclear!"

Yeah, I mean, I say that too.

The tech is dangerous, humans are irresponsible greedy idiots who should not handle it and we have no space for the waste from production and from decommission.

Also: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-nuclearpower-astri...

All contrary to how modern reactors work. No human intervention required; waste not the issue.

Its FUD like that, that keeps accidents happening. Because we can't decommission old reactors by building new ones.

So those new reactors that do not exist have no humans working there? Interesting theory...

You CAN decommission them. You just don't WANT. Germany managed it. France could too but they are not doing it because of greed aka human intervention.

In the end the same fact remains: humans = bad, bad shouldn't manage nuclear ergo no nuclear.

Don't be an ass. They have critical functions automated, and have very few critical functions.

With a growing populace and demand, no you cannot decommission power plants without huge political backlash.