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California’s safety law prevents new nukes

Nuclear power not the answer; renewable energy is Sign On San Diego By ACE HOFFMAN   November 15, 2009″…….…….

We have a law in California that prohibits new nuclear power plants until a solution to the problem of nuclear waste is found. But since nuclear waste destroys any container you put it in, and is so concentrated and so dangerous that millionths of a gram is a lethal dose, proper solutions defy the laws of physics, averages and economics. Indeed, they defy reality.

The way California’s law was written, no one has been able to get around it. No new nuclear power plants have been built in California since San Onofre’s Unit 3 came online in 1983 and Diablo Canyon’s Unit 2 in 1985, and if either of the two operating reactor units at either of these facilities close, that unit cannot legally be replaced.

Therefore, Southern California Edison plans to keeps these old clunkers running for as many more decades as the so-called regulators will let them. A running nuclear power plant, with a federal government promise (unkept, and that’s a another matter) to assume responsibility for the deadly radioactive waste, is a very profitable thing.

Not that there aren’t a lot of expenses, but if you don’t have to pay proper insurance, and you don’t have to pay proper fuel disposal costs, and you don’t have to pay for an accident if it does happen, well, then it’s profitable. For the owners, but not for society as a whole………………

Now is an especially appropriate time to close San Onofre forever.

But since nuclear waste destroys any container you put it in, and is so concentrated and so dangerous that millionths of a gram is a lethal dose, proper solutions defy the laws of physics, averages and economics.

Nuclear power not the answer; renewable energy is

November 15, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Legal, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive