Currently, the nominal lifetime (time that plants may operate, before they must be dismantled) allowed for fission-type nuclear reactors in the United States is

A. nuclear reactors need not be retired, because new technology developments have demonstrated that they can be fixed.
B. about one hundred years.
C. about forty years.
D. about four years.


Answer: C

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