This is the way

Then we agree, nice. I don’t know the costs of those repairs so I’ll take your word for it.

Not economically viable to build new, yes. But to run existing ones until they need major renovations?

Like they already built the damn things. It would be wasteful to just shut them down, especially if replaced with coal and gas.

Or could you provide me with some sources on why running existing nuclear plants is too expensive?

Well you can use the clock for giving headings. “that tree at 10”. Then you have historical and ornamental clocks which might be nice to read. Like you can not design a digital clock to look as good as an analog one.

But yeah. Probably not many reasons really

I actually preferred the show version up to and especially book 3. But then the books have an actual ending and other great POV characters. I’d say they are equally great overall