The Diablo Canyon Power Plant, the only operating nuclear powered plant in California, is seen in Avila Beach in 2023. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Sept. 1, 2024 To the editor:Nuclear plants are among the most earthquake-resistant structures on the planet, something that your...
Initiative Seeks More Nuclear Plants in CaliforniaEducation
How can we protect our nuclear power plants?Don’t count on the plant security forces -- they aren’t nearly strong enough. These plants are each vulnerable to air strikes, truck bombs, boat bombs, and of course, the well-equipped and well-armed single madman or small group of terrorists...
In recent years, nuclear plants have racked up costs because of more outages and equipment being replaced.MIT researchersin one study also pointed to higher costs from research and development. They also cited decreased worker productivity, possibly due to low morale. Another reason f...
The U.S. nuclear power industry’s 92 reactors generate more than half of the country’s virtually carbon-free electricity. But about a dozen reactors have closed since 2013 in the face of competition from renewable energy and plants that burn plentiful natural gas. ...
Whennuclear power plantshave closed in the past, fossil fuel use increased in response. In 1985, the closure of reactors in Tennessee Valley prompted a spike in coal use, while the 2012 shutdown of a plant in California led to an increase in natural gas. In Germany, where nuclear power ...
Nuclear Power Plants - California Moratorium on Construction Not Preempted by Atomic Energy Act - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. v. State Energy Resources Co... of the AEC licensees for the manifold health, safety, and economic pur- poses other than radiationprotection." In 1965, in Pacific ...
The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California. Replacing nuclear with wind and solar power, of course, does not add to carbon dioxide emissions. But history shows that the constant supply of electricity from nuclear plantstends to be replaced by new natural gas generation—indeed, the low...
The U.S. nuclear power industry's 92 reactors generate more than half of the country's virtually carbon-free electricity. But about a dozen reactors have closed since 2013 in the face of competition from renewable energy and plants that burn plentiful natural gas. ...
“It makes no sense to shut it down, at least not this way,” noted Dr. Zachary Lang, an energy expert in Washington, D.C. “California should have a more gradual letting go in balance with the number of new wind or solar plants. Or expand nuclear. Not just cut it off all at on...