Posted on 01/11/2018 12:31:00 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
California’s last nuclear power plant — Diablo Canyon, whose contentious birth helped shape the modern environmental movement — will close in 2025, state utility regulators decided Thursday.
The unanimous vote by the California Public Utilities Commission will likely bring an end to nuclear energy’s long history in the state, even as California fights to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that come from conventional power plants. State law forbids building more nuclear plants in California until the federal government creates a long-term solution for dealing with their waste, a goal that remains elusive despite decades of effort.
“With this decision, we chart a new energy future by phasing out nuclear power here in California,” said commission President Michael Picker. “We’ve looked hard at all the arguments, and we agree the time has come.”
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Time for one of these Ecology Worshiping Billionaires to start building Thorium/Molten Salt Reactors.
Build the first ones where you don’t have to endure EcoWarriors and Sierra Club Lawyers. Prove the concept then make a mint ‘burning’ the waste from the old pressurized water reactors while you are generating power.
The regulators trashed the agreement made with PG&E, too.
So much for agreements.
“They all use electric cars so they don’t need power plants. DUH.”
We laugh, but I’d bet that a sizable portion of leftist tree-huggers hold that exact position.
Yes, they do.. They know that electricity comes from the wall, not a nuclear power plant.
Let’s see...a partial list: Low, on water; High, on earthquakes, floods, fires, and mudslides; Low, on pensions, operating capital; high, on illegals.
And now, using global warming as an excuse to do away with their power source. They’re already highly dependent on water, so I guess there’ll be very little hydro to make up for the losses. Guess they’ll just “beg” some from neighboring states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermountain_Power_Plant
You could probably fit all of the waste (in their special containers behind the barbed wire) on two flatbed trucks. Pretty amazing - almost a perpetual motion machine to use that little fuel for how long it has been.
customers were left on the hook for an additional $3.3 billion
Above is San Onofre in So Cal, $3.3 Billion to CLOSE the plant
>>Candles for light and burn little trees for heat...That’s the spirit!!!
LOL<<
Nope — adds to pollution and global warming (remember: you can’t burn leaves in CA and they have restrictions on what lighter fluid you can use in your BBQ).
Just gotta stay cold and wait until daytime.
That’s why the “LOL” at the end....
Another issue is that it appears that the only viable water source for long term growth in southern Cali is desalinization plants that need electrical power (lots of it) to function. I hope the out of state power suppliers charge ‘em out the wazoo for any electricity they use.
Unless California is going off the national power grid, it is getting at least some of its electricity from nuclear power. They know it too. They are a bunch of hypocrites.
...and feeds them s*** because he thinks they’re all mushrooms.
You can’t stop stupid when the commissions are political appointees. Here in Memphis we have MLGW workers who are not allowed to work on lines because they are affirmative action hires driving lineman trucks who cannot take and pass a journeyman test. Instead they just run parts for contracted lineman brought in to do work. The commission demanded this hiring practice.
Taxpaying citizens + bicycle generators while the new illegal overlords enjoy themselves.
I’m glad I don’t live in moonbeam world.
Everyone and there uncle here in FL has a diesel generator for backup if power goes out in a hurricane. What do folks do in CA? Does CARB even allow diesel powered generators?
So there I am in third grade living in Shell Beach, right? My class is fixin' to go on a field trip to the nuclear power plant. I got this hippie aunt (who gave me a full atomic murphy one time) and she told me to ask them what would happen if the plant leaked.
Like a good little ignorant stooge, I asked the guy. He's like, "It will never leak." So I'm all like, "Yea, but what if it does?"
This went on about three times till he got REALLY pissed.
I learned two things that day. Nuclear power plants can never leak. And my aunt was a psycho.
The end.
p.s. For those of you confused about what a "murphy" is, you may know it as a "melvin" or a "wedgie." Depends on where you're from.
They should trade their flatulence for some of the welfare benes they get, then.
Facebook better start laying in a supply of “D” batteries to run those servers...
California is banking on a 2020 regime change in Washington to bail them out like General motors. Too big to fail. The worse they drive it in the ditch now, the better the prospects for a rescue. Look for even more accelerated stupid.
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