Diablo Canyon
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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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A Risky Gamble at Diablo Canyon (CounterPunch)
“Environmental groups concerned about cost and safety issues at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in San Luis Obispo County on California’s central coast thought they’d scored a big win in...
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NRC would ‘violate federal law’ by fast-tracking PG&E bid to extend Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, groups say (Environmental Working Group)
“Four environmental organizations once again put the NRC on notice that the agency would violate federal law if it accepts Pacific Gas & Electric’s (PG&E’s) October 31 proposal to resurrect...
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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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California to be Nuclear Free by 2025
In a stunning turn of events, Pacific Gas & Electric, the operator of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant on the Central California coast, announced in 2016 that it was abandoning...
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Does California shutdown mean the end of nuclear power? Not so fast.
Read the Christian Science Monitor report here.
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Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Closure Approved
Read the story here.
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PG&E’s Diablo Canyon closure plan clears 1st hurdle
The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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The Diablo Canyon deal marks the death of nuclear power in the U.S. — or does it?
Michael Hiltzik asks whether Diablo Canyon’s closure signals the death of the nuclear power industry in the United States.