Under pressure from lawmakers and environmental activists, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) agreed in 2016 to decommission Diablo when its operating licenses expire in 2024 and 2025. But in light of the recent energy policy environment, California lawmakers had second thoughts.
Monday, September 12, 2022
Commentary: Nuclear Power Is Making a Big Comeback All Around the World
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that California Gov. Gavin Newsom was spearheading an eleventh-hour effort to pass legislation to extend a lifeline to Diablo Canyon, a 2,250-megawatt nuclear plant that supplies some 8 percent of the energy produced in the Golden State.
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This calls for a professional:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1POfpg9xsck
This clip also applies to these Germans at the UN who were laughing at Trump when he said they were making a big mistake to get their natural gas from Nord Stream.
DeleteChina and India don't have an energy shortage because their politicians aren't stupid enough to buy into the climate crisis cack. The US and Europe are facing an energy crisis that is caused entirely by our ignorant and stupid governments. In the UK the choice for voters is between the really stupid and incompetent party and the vote for us because we're even worse parties.
ReplyDeletewhos zoomin who?
DeleteChina is building solar panels and wind turbines for the USA, but not themselves.
Delete...take the hint.
"The US and Europe are facing an energy crisis that is caused entirely by our ignorant and stupid governments." And our ignorant and stupid citizenry. I recollect all the anti-nuke rallies and demonstrations of the 1970's and 1980's. Think Helen Caldicott and her minions Morons all.
ReplyDeleteIt will take decades to build new nuclear power plants. Extending the life of old ones based on old designs is a half-ass solution looking for its whole own set of problems. We may have waited too long.
Mothers For Peace, a homegrown group of bored housewives, protested loud enough to attract the big guns like Green Peace and Sierra Club. Their efforts delayed the commissioning of Diablo Canyon by over ten years. Showing they really, really are serious, they blocked the main gate on a daily basis, all the while depriving their suffering husbands sammich and a hot meal.
DeleteThen it didn't help that PG&E CEO Richard Brown lied repeatedly. So often in fact, that GE and NRC held their own investigations into malfeasance which added more years of delays. Of course the labor unions did their usual BS.
(EX: A bulb burned out in a service tunnel. Sparky, for (none other are qualified) is summoned but cannot replace the bulb until the proper procument, with attendant log entries, are completed.)
Meanwhile, the welders made bank. With plenty of down time, though still on the payroll, they made boat and cargo trailers using misappropriated materials. A small group of welders fab'd a shed out of which they operated a house of ill repute. How they got the girls, er, the product onto a secure facility has remained a mystery.
Meanwhile, the mx costs were adding up; keeping the unused facilities up to snuff was expensive. Seemingly suddenly, NRC ended their glacial investigation and issued the operation permit.
It is laughably, hugely ironic to see Newsonlini and econazis capitulate to corporatism
What makes you think The Usual Suspects will allow new nuke plants to be built?
DeleteSo all the reasons requiring those plants to be closed are no longer valid?
ReplyDeleteOr were they just being leftist idiots?
(Rhetorical question).
Those reasons were never valid. The nitwits are now admitting it.
DeleteCanada and France, unlike the US, have pressurized water reactors that are mostly cookie cutters of each other. That way, if a problem crops up, it is fixed across the board. These reactors have an impeccable safety record. The only time that I know of where Canada (or France) had a major problem with its reactors is back in 1952 at Canada’s Chalk River Laboratories in Deep River, Ontario. The Canadians asked for help from the US Navy, and Admiral Rickover sent then Lieutenant Jimmy Carter to avert a reactor disaster. Carter knew what he was doing, and averted a catastrophe. Too bad his prowess didn't follow him to the presidency .
ReplyDeleteCalifornia is going to build solar powered nuclear plants this year just for electric cars.
ReplyDelete@Luis-IGotGas
There is huge risk in nuclear power the way we do it now. Contamination risks, not bomb type stuff. It's scary. However, it's the easiest form of power per MW we have. We also understand it very well. I helped design one of the small modular reactors that just got approval. Cool stuff but still risky. Since we want to toss fossil, there really isn't much choice left. It's a decade to build a new one, though. Boomers are leaving and many like me who have some years left (and learned from the boomers!), quit the industry for various reasons. It'll cost to bring us back. Nuclear has some big headwinds before it makes a run.
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