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A California and Nationwide Industry Assault on Nuclear Moratoriums

Apr 11, 2025, By Mary Beth Brangan, James Heddle – EON

Attempt to Reverse 1976 Moratorium

Despite multiple earthquake faults surrounding the three California nuclear reactor coastal sites harboring huge amounts of radioactive waste in tsunami zones, with no plan to deal with the tons of waste, a bill has been introduced in the state Assembly to increase nuclear use in our state. This also despite the devastating fires that occur regularly in California increasing the already staggering risks of nuclear reactors and the lethal long lived waste they produce.

Assemblymember Dr. Juaquin Arambula (D – Fresno) with main co-sponsors Assemblymember Diane Dixon (R – Orange) and Assemblymember Josh Hoover (R- Sacramento) introduced AB 305 . It would overturn California’s longstanding nuclear moratorium to allow for the construction of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).

Nuclear Recidivism – Not Only In California

This is part of a national and international pattern. Recidivist nuclear revival forces have mounted coordinated national rollback efforts on state’s prohibitions on building new nuclear plants. Push for new nuclear build outs is happening through the Governor’s Association, as if it were ALEC. Pro-nuclear consortia are being formed with clusters of 10 states as a group.

On the international level, plans to decommission 7 nuclear plants in Spain, for instance, are also being rolled back. There activists are using our documentary SOS, The San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power’s Legacy, in their efforts to ensure they are shut down and not given extended licenses, such as happened here in California with Diablo Canyon.

The underlying motivation is to attempt to rescue a failing nuclear power industry because it supports the infrastructure of research, education and labor force training for nuclear weapons production. Tritium, for instance, is a need. A ‘dual-use’ motivation is to provide power for the immensely energy guzzling Generative AI centers proliferating like weeds as key components in a planned social perception and population control grid. This is part of the agenda of the ruling elites who intend to destroy our old governmental structure of representational democracy and replace it with their transhumanist, technocratic vision.

As of December 11, 2024, 9 states still had nuclear moratoriums. Four states have already repealed moratoriums that had previously been in place:

1. Wisconsin (2016)
2. Kentucky (2017)
3. Montana (2021)
4. West Virginia (2022)

Activists in Oregon are mounting a huge fight to protect their moratorium.

We in California must join together to stop the insanity of producing more lethal radioactive waste lasting hundreds of thousands to many millions of years without any idea of how to keep it from ruining all life on earth.

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April 15, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized