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Nuclear crossroad: California reactors face uncertain future
ap/townhall ^ | November 28, 2015

Posted on 11/28/2015 2:38:17 PM PST by BenLurkin

Six years ago, the company that owns California's last operating nuclear power plant announced it would seek an extended lifespan for its aging reactors. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. envisioned Diablo Canyon as a linchpin in the state's green energy future, with its low-carbon electricity illuminating homes to nearly midcentury.

Now, with a much changed nuclear power landscape, the company is evaluating whether to meet a tangle of potentially costly state environmental requirements needed to obtain renewed operating licenses.

If it doesn't move forward, California's nuclear power age will end.

That prospect is remarkable considering it was once predicted that meeting California's growing energy needs would require a nuclear power plant every 50 miles along its coast. But vast fields of solar panels, wind turbines that in places are as common as fence posts and developments in power storage speak to changed times.

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: california; governormoonbeam; jerrybrown; moonbeam; pge
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To: BenLurkin

California doesn’t need gas, oil, water or nuke power.

It’s utopia


21 posted on 11/29/2015 5:35:34 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: BenLurkin
,a href="http://www.wildergarten.com/wp_pages/articles/nrdc_energy_racketeering.html">Energy Racketeering: The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

The origins and history of regulatory power as the resurgence of European mercantilism via tax-exempt foundations and environmental law. How the current system works using the example of NRDC machinations in the California energy market.

22 posted on 11/29/2015 6:44:54 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Dupes for Donald, Chumps for Trump)
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To: Nuc 1.1
Due to the cost of steam generator removal, repair, and reinstallation (billions) and the anti nuclear environment in California, the unit owner decided to close the plant.

And that had nothing at all to do with the fact that the CEO of the Socal Edison was none other than Gerry Brown's greenie lawyer in chief: John Bryson! /s Bryson had founded the NRDC which shut down Rancho Seco.

He's a tool of natural gas interests.

23 posted on 11/29/2015 6:50:54 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Dupes for Donald, Chumps for Trump)
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To: Carry_Okie

Interesting. The political cost is additive to all other costs.


24 posted on 11/29/2015 8:01:36 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Nuc 1.1

Precisely.


25 posted on 11/29/2015 8:29:15 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Dupes for Donald, Chumps for Trump)
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To: Nuc 1.1
There's more to that story if you are interested.
26 posted on 11/29/2015 8:30:25 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Dupes for Donald, Chumps for Trump)
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To: Carry_Okie

Thanks. A good President, Justice Department, and Use of RICO, will start fixing the problems so clearly documented in your post.


27 posted on 11/29/2015 6:55:35 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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A good President, Justice Department, and Use of RICO, will start fixing the problems so clearly documented in your post.

Thanks. Even a State AG with some balls could do it, but to my mind there are clearly multiple Federal crimes involved here.

Take a little time looking around that site. There's a lot there.

28 posted on 11/29/2015 7:10:14 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Dupes for Donald, Chumps for Trump)
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