If Diablo Canyon closes in 2024 and 2025 there will be intensely increasing roving power outages. The need for more fossil fuels will greatly increase the emissions we are striving to reduce. Our electrical grid can’t yet sustain 100 percent clean, emission free power 100 percent of the time without steady 24/7 power from Diablo Canyon.
Because Diablo Canyon is one of the most robust structures in the world, if there’s ever an earthquake strong enough to damage it, there’s no sense in worrying because every structure in San Luis Obispo County will be flattened.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but opinions are not proof. If you haven’t had training in nuclear power, worked at Diablo Canyon as I have, there is no basis for the truth and your opinions have no basis for fact.
Ellie Ripley
Arroyo Grande
This article appears in Aug 25 – Sep 4, 2022.
Huh? By definition, an opinion is “a view or judgement about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.” So you’re saying Ellie if you have dinner out you can’t have the opinion that your meal sucked because you never worked in a restaurant? Good grief. And you have verifiable proof if Diablo was damaged in an earthquke every building in San Luis Obispo would be destroyed? Good grief again. Here’s an opinion: Diablo is old, flawed, vulnerable to earthquakes, out of storage capacity soon, dangerous and needs to be closed as per the 2016 agreement endorsed by the state legislature. Whether you agree with the opinion or not matters not at all to me. And I’d ask your opinion of how the Dodgers are doing this year, but, you know, you never played professional baseball so your opinion has “no basis for fact.”
Newsom should butt out of the discussion then. He has no training or background in anything nuclear. But nuclear industry insiders’ opinions are biased and can’t be trusted either.
If Newsom is not allowed to study the issue and form an opinion, neither are you [unless you are a nuclear scientist].
Our gov’t is supposed to be ordained and established by “We The People” and
since voters decide most issues, apparently
voters are allowed to think, form opinions and vote accordingly
Except, perhaps, when you don’t like their opinion . . .
BTW: I am all for super majority votes by the “people” since it is too easy to get 51 individuals to bins 100 to some notion or another. gkl