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California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the San Francisco Chronicle:
California's last nuclear power plant -- Diablo Canyon, whose contentious birth helped shape the modern environmental movement -- will close in 2025, state utility regulators decided Thursday. The unanimous vote by the California Public Utilities Commission will likely bring an end to nuclear energy's long history in the state. State law forbids building more nuclear plants in California until the federal government creates a long-term solution for dealing with their waste, a goal that remains elusive despite decades of effort.
The decision comes even as California expands its fight against global warming. Owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Diablo Canyon is the state's largest power plant, supplying 9 percent of California's electricity while producing no greenhouse gases. "With this decision, we chart a new energy future by phasing out nuclear power here in California," said commission President Michael Picker. "We've looked hard at all the arguments, and we agree the time has come."
The decision comes even as California expands its fight against global warming. Owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Diablo Canyon is the state's largest power plant, supplying 9 percent of California's electricity while producing no greenhouse gases. "With this decision, we chart a new energy future by phasing out nuclear power here in California," said commission President Michael Picker. "We've looked hard at all the arguments, and we agree the time has come."
California doesn't have gerrymandering. Unlike Texas, North Carolina, etc, the congressional and state legislative districts are drawn by an independent commission, and there's a simple method to challenge them in the courts.
You make think California is an "echo chamber", but if you spend any time here, you will hear diverse political opinions. There just happens to be more Democrats. My personal theory is that it's because it's such a beautiful place to live that there is generally less anger and hatred, so fewer reasons to become right-wing jackoffs. I mean, there are some as you move East, like in Bakersfield or Fresno, but mostly people just roll their eyes at them as they froth at the mouth and soil themselves in fury. Also, weed is legal here, so people are less likely to reactionary shitheads.
You are welcome on my lawn.
No,
they extract half of the remaining uranium and try to enrich it again.
That means the other half is left, the nuclides from fission are left and the bomb making material (if any) is left.
And all what is left is a brine of high corrosive acid.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.