A workhorse failure Regarding your cover story about Diablo Canyon ( Changed habitat, Dec. 17), and without diminishing the marine impacts of once-through cooling, what is also being flushed down the drain by PG&E is nearly $100 million in ratepayer funds for their failed repair of Diablo s Unit 2 main generator. As ratepayer advocates, the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility opposed this as too costly considering the barely five years of life left in the plant. It took 60 days of down time for the initial work in the fourth quarter of 2019. In 2020, the rebuilt generator was shut down three times for hydrogen leaks the same problem the costly repairs were supposed to remedy and has been offline for 84 days (as of Dec. 21). If not restarted by year-end, it will have been down more than 90 days, a 75 percent operational rate for 2020. If Unit 2 were the 24/7 workhorse we pay for, it shouldn t call in sick one day out of four. The California Public Utilities Commission appro
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New Times article on Diablo Canyon sea water intake and discharge, Changed habitat (Dec. 17, 2020). Clearly, evidence does exist of the huge volume of planktonic sea life killed every year. However, it has apparently been forgotten that in the early days of Diablo Canyon, we still had an abalone fishery in San Luis Obispo County. Similarly, the red sea urchin fishery was founded at Port San Luis about 1972. At this time, too, we could still fish for clams at Pismo Beach and Morro Bay. Most of these shellfish resources went away before and during the early Diablo days. Did Diablo Canyon Power Plant eliminate these food resources? No. This loss was caused by sea otters, not fishing, not Diablo Canyon seawater intake/discharges. And, this did not occur just at Point Buchon. These fishery losses occurred over an approximate 300 miles of coastline, north of Monterey to northern Santa Barbara County.
Re: Diablo is a marine life killer The Mothers for Peace representative s letter ( Diablo is a marine life killer, Dec. 24, 2020) is fraught with the usual misleading information. For example. The affected area is about 4 acres of an ocean comprising some 62.8 million square miles, so the negative effect of Diablo s thermal discharge is vastly exaggerated. I suppose that the sacrifice of the lives of billions of living beings is technically correct if you include amoebas and other microscopic beings. Another falsehood constantly promoted by the anti-nuclear crowd is that PG&E unilaterally decided to shut down Diablo Canyon for financial reasons and that therefore any economic and environmental consequences are all PG&E s fault. That is not true. PG&E fully intended to seek renewal of its license and even invested in substantial upgrades in anticipation. But when the water board imposed the requirement to cease direct discharge into the ocean, the only viable alternative was
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