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Diablo Canyon nuclear plant must be shut down

Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 7, 2024 Ron Pomerantz and Jane Weed-Pomerantz, Santa Cruz,  https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/01/07/letter-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-must-be-shut-down

Recently the Sentinel reported that the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) approved extending operation of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (Diablo) from a 2025 shutdown until 2030.

This is frightening and intolerable news allowing the continued Russian roulette operation of Diablo and confirming the CPUC a “captured agency.”

Many are outraged of the rate increases that PG&E is now allowed, costing ratepayers $8+billion dollars. Conservatively if spent on wind turbines and solar systems, 2-4 times electrical energy of Diablo could be produced! All with 100 percent renewable fuels and without public and environmental risk.

Diablo is old, embrittled, centered onshore near San Luis Obispo with numerous active earthquake faults. No solution exists for the storage of radioactive waste now on site.

Operation also furthers dependence on finite foreign sources of uranium with unstable and dangerous governments.

The reality is the nuclear fuel-cycle demands fossil fuels to process and distribute – hardly a green technology. Please contact the governor and state elected officials to set them straight by shutting-down Diablo and stop endangering lives and property..

January 8, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety