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Old Nov 16, 2010 | 6:55 pm
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Originally Posted by notquiteaff
Is it? Maybe I am missing something, but if you typically reach 100K in, say, August, your SWUs will be valid from August to August. If you reach it on December, they'll be valid until Dec 31 the next year. One way or another you have a 12 month window to use them [...]
I can understand it making a difference the first year it's implemented. Let's assume that 2011 SWU are still deposited in January and that they implement the instant deposit at 100k that year. If one achieves 100k in say, March without using up all of the 2011 SWU, then they're stuck with a ton of SWU that expire at about the same time. The following year, if they qualify at or near the same time of year, I agree there's little difference.
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