Have you been reading over at DU?
SONGS and nuclear in general is a necessity.
I’ve been reading where there is no where to store nuclear waste except onsite where nuclear plants create its own wastes. Along with existing older nuclear plants applying for extended operating permits because creating more waste is cheaper than storing expenses of existing nuclear wastes when subsidized by taxpayers.
Japan used the same arguments of rolling brown outs and higher ratepayer fees if their nuclear power plants had to shut down due to the Great Earthquake and tsunami ramifications. Now all but one of about 52 nuke plants are shut down there, soon to be zero because they can’t pass newer stress tests parameters.
In the meantime, Fukushima still has (3) unconstrained melted cores polluting the environment with nuclear fallout...at least Chernobyl’s meltdown was temporarily capped with concrete.
Germany elects to shut down their nuclear program while the US approves another nuke plant, go figure.