Category: Nuclear Power
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A warning about radioactive air pollution from Pilgrim (CommonWealth Beacon)
“Daniel Hirsch, retired director of the program on environmental and nuclear policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said ‘there is no credible expert who believes that [disposing of...
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California energy officials vote to extend Diablo Canyon nuclear plant operations (LA Times)
“‘Inside the aging Diablo Canyon reactors resides an astronomical quantity of radioactivity,’ said Daniel Hirsch, a retired director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at UC Santa Cruz....
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Diablo Canyon, the last remaining nuclear power plant in California, gets a lifeline (San Diego Union-Tribune)
“’No matter what is said today, the results appear preordained,’ said one caller from PG&E’s service territory. ‘Each of you commissioners were appointed by Gov. Newsom.'” Read the full article...
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State legislator, expert seek testing to vouch for at-risk welds at PG&E’s Diablo plant (NBC Bay Area)
“With PG&E seeking to extend the life of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant another 20 years, a state legislator and a long-time pro-nuclear scientist are calling for PG&E to conduct...
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Dan Hirsch Comments on CA Energy Commission’s Diablo Canyon Report
Last year, California’s Governor Newsom succeeded in jamming SB 846 through the State Legislature, shredding the 2016 agreement to shutter the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant by 2025 and authorizing...
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Keeping contentious nuclear plant open could cost Californians $45B: report (The Hill)
“If the plant ends up staying online for two more decades, total costs to run the site could range from more than $20 billion to nearly $45 billion from 2023...
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Friends of the Earth Files Lawsuit to Enforce the PG&E Agreement to Phase out Diablo Nuclear Plant
The organization says that in 2016 it entered into an agreement with PG&E to retire the dangerous Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo County. In exchange for...
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Victory in Sacramento: CBG and other Groups Block Attempt to allow New Nuclear Power Plants in California
A few days ago, on April 10, 2023, CBG and other groups succeeded in defeating a bill in Sacramento that would have reversed California’s 1976 Nuclear Safeguards Act. The Act...
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Biden gives PG&E $1 billion to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open (LA Times)
“The federal money doesn’t guarantee Diablo Canyon will stay open longer. But it increases the likelihood of California continuing to rely on the plant, along the Central Coast in San...
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Fierce lobbying caps fight over California nuke plant future (AP)
“Lawmakers have questioned why Newsom dropped the text of his legislation just days before the end of the Legislature’s two-year session on Wednesday, saying it provided virtually no time to...
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SLO Mothers for Peace lay out opposition to possible extension of Diablo Canyon operations (KSBY)
“Daniel Hirsch, President of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, claimed that the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant was built near four different fault lines, including the Shoreline fault which lies...
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Nuclear energy backers say it’s vital for the fight against global warming. Don’t be so sure (LA Times)
“The 1959 explosion of a sodium-cooled test reactor at the government’s secretive Santa Susana Field Laboratory outside Simi Valley remains the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, venting an immense...
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Harper’s Magazine Reports on the Risky Resurgence of Nuclear Power
“Dwight Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms for Peace’ program, unveiled in 1953, set the optimistic tone for nuclear power: ‘The United States knows that peaceful power from atomic energy is no dream of...
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Environmentalists Fault Sending ‘Very Low Level’ Nuclear Waste to Landfills
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CBG’s Comment on the Final Environmental Impact Report for San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) Units 2 and 3 Decommissioning Project
Read CBG’s comment letter to Controller Betty Yee, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis and Finance Director Keely Bosler by clicking here.