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Unit 2 closed due to a technicality (the license says that the plant must be able to operate at 100% power, but the plant wanted to run at 70% power on a shortened cycle to demonstrate that no new problems would occur). Unit 3 closed due to steam generators that required difficult repairs, or replacement, and the manufacturer (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) did not provide a warranty for replacement power.
1 posted on 06/07/2013 8:15:11 AM PDT by kidd
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With plentiful natural gas available in any state that is smart enough to permit fracking, nuclear power plants are obsolete.


2 posted on 06/07/2013 8:17:26 AM PDT by txrefugee
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The fearmongered version of this information can be found at:
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2013-06-07/calif-dot-utility-says-it-will-retire-nuclear-plant

There was never a safety concern. This is a replacement power cost / uncertainty issue.


3 posted on 06/07/2013 8:18:22 AM PDT by kidd
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I'm shocked to hear this. Do I need the sarcasm tag?
4 posted on 06/07/2013 8:18:33 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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neighbor states should tell CA to screw off.

Restrictions to produce power in CA have forced them to rely on power generated out of state.

To hell with CA!


9 posted on 06/07/2013 8:26:50 AM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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Earth is now in a Nuclear Age, and I’d say that humans will soon come up with more reliable nuclear plants.


11 posted on 06/07/2013 8:31:11 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
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If the structures are ever torn down, will it be considered an industrial mastectomy?


12 posted on 06/07/2013 8:32:23 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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The first concern of every good Californian should be on the welfare of the Spotted Owl. So the closing of this plant is a good thing. If ALL forms of modern energy collection could be removed from the state, then the path to paradise is assured.

And in case you're wondering what the SECOND concern of every good Californian should be, the answer is obvious:

MORE TAXPAYER-FUNDED HIGH-SPEED RAIL!!!!!!

14 posted on 06/07/2013 8:44:26 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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Bad news. Going to be an interesting summer.


15 posted on 06/07/2013 8:49:56 AM PDT by TheDon (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
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To: kidd

Good luck with those power bills.


16 posted on 06/07/2013 8:50:22 AM PDT by EricT. (Another Muslim terrorist. Who saw that coming?)
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Former SCE chair, founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and former Commerce Secretary John Bryson set this process in motion. The goal of energy racketeering in California is to make money in carbon offsets.
20 posted on 06/07/2013 9:00:38 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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It’s going to be a long hot summer.


21 posted on 06/07/2013 9:02:14 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (Thy Kingdom come!)
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Another bonehead move by the liberals. We’ll all be throwing spears soon.


23 posted on 06/07/2013 9:04:09 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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This would leave Diablo Canyon as the only nuke plant left in California. I guess California is going to have to get used to paying outrageous prices for electricity, and live with rationing of power and rolling blackouts. I live ten miles away from a hydroelectric dam, and my electric bill is dirt cheap, and I will encourage the locals to make sure it stays that way by supporting the local utility.
25 posted on 06/07/2013 9:17:19 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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Isn’t the People’s Democratic Republic of California running a bit short in power generate capability?


26 posted on 06/07/2013 9:20:22 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it gettingthe so hot?)
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We need a video with the the Electric Nazi:

“no juice for you!”


30 posted on 06/07/2013 9:38:21 AM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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As long as they can replace with natural gas, combined cycle with 50% thermal efficiency; rate payers should actually save.

But to depend on one primary fuel source, that is not stored at the generating plant; is risky. Pipeline failures do occur and we know what it is like to make improvements on pipelines.


32 posted on 06/07/2013 9:44:23 AM PDT by cicero2k
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So, if I read the article correctly, the San Onofre Reactors were done-in by DC, as in the Washington DC-based Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The NRC did not reject SCE's plan to restart Unit 2 at 70% because rejections can be legally appealed. Instead SCE was placed in legal and financial limbo through the politics of process-paralysis and deliberate bureaucratic slow-walking. As a result, I don't blame SCE for simply saying: "No mas!" '
33 posted on 06/07/2013 9:51:24 AM PDT by Trentamj
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California .... Please don’t ask Texas for any help ...

TT


54 posted on 06/07/2013 12:51:14 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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