[bnelson44]

Yea, just keep sucking electricity from Palo Verdes Nuclear plant in AZ.

[USNBandit]

Last year I read an article where officials in CA were considering funding expansion of the Palo Verdes plant. There is also a plan to build a coal-fired plant in Gerlach (rural) Nevada.

Yesterday there was a story of Malibu residents opposing a planned LNG terminal in there area

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622970/posts

The consistent trait seems to be that Californians want power, they just don't want to produce it.

[Tarantulas]

Palo Verde will be happy to sell electricity to anyone who will buy it. Unfortunately two of our three plants are shut down for maintenance at the moment, but once we start up the other two, they won't sit idle with the output breakers open.

I'm sure they're talking about spent nuclear fuel rods when they mention "waste." The article is correct in pointing out that spent fuel is stored onsite at Diablo Canyon. Humboldt Bay had been shut down for over 20 years now, so I doubt there is any spent fuel stored there. And there was no mention of the Rancho Seco plant that has been shut down for many years too.

Spent fuel is stored in shielded casks on concrete pads at nuclear plants all over the country and there is no security problem. By the time terrorists drove a truck in there to try to steal a cask, they would be shot full of holes by the plant's security force. And there would be no way to get explosives in there to blow up a cask for the same reason. I've seen a video of cask testing where they ran a rocket-powered diesel locomotive into one at 70 mph and it just bounced off with a few scratches on the outer surface.

As usual, scientific truth takes a back seat to political posturing, and the citizens of California are the ones who have to suffer.