From my reading, even the original design engineers are saying we never anticipated these plants operating longer than 40 years. The whole safety issue of radiation damage to steel (& how much of the cooling tubes & other steelworks are leaking and embrittled already from 40 years of radiation hardening) is a well known issue in nuclear engineering circles that is completely kept out of the public limelight & such discussions as Indian Point.
Please click on the link and Vote NO on keeping the Indian Point nuclear
power plant open, . It's a very close vote right now ....
Mitchel