First, let me say “thank you” for your continuing work and advocacy for a clean, healthy environment in California. We depend on our elected representatives to inspire conservation, belief in climate science, and action to change harmful and dangerous ways of using and creating energy.
The citizens of San Luis Obispo have lived with the risk of a nuclear accident at Diablo Canyon Power Plant for more than four decades now. There has always been the seismic concern, terrorist threat, and human error possibilities, and now the realization of highly radioactive waste (500 pounds a day generated) we will have in our county forever.
Additionally, we ratepayers are going to be paying above-market costs to support a bankrupt, criminally negligent PG&E that is now trying to market its oversupply of energy to community choice aggregators that are claiming to sell “clean” energy. Nuclear is not clean!
I urge you to close Diablo Canyon Power Plant immediately. Time is of the essence so we can invest in truly renewable energy sources, which need to be supported because of the climate crisis, our health, safety, and the environment.
Marty Brown
Atascadero
This article appears in Apr 23 – May 3, 2020.
It is not clear to me what the risks to our environment are from the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. However, compared with the deaths in the carbon energy extraction industry, and those from air pollution, I suspect that Diablo Canyon represents a net decrease in human health risks.
It is regrettable that a large number of our citizens are fearful of nuclear power, which seems to offer both clean air and almost limitless energy. To the extent that technology has advanced to make this source of energy even cheaper and safer, I would prefer to see us invest in that, rather than to constrain the society’s growth. There’s a wonderful benefit from solar energy (though “wind” energy doesn’t actually seem to pencil out), but the combination of the solar and nuclear resources might bring about the clear skies and abundant energy that our ancestors dreamed of having at our disposal.
Eat a Richard Gov. GAYvin Newsome and his Libocrat sheople. Which is probably too late of a suggestion.
#WalkAway
I’d be curious on a source for that, because that is wildly inaccurate.