But it’s also clear that the vast disparity in subsidies being given to solar and wind versus the amount being given to nuclear energy reflects the mismatch between the rhetoric about the possible threat of climate change and the reality of how Congress doles out money to politically connected industries. .if we are going to have any hope of limiting greenhouse gas emissions we must also preserve and extend the operating lives of existing nuclear reactors.
The U.S. nuclear sector is shrinking. Wind and solar are getting lucrative tax credits. The Washington Favor Factory never sleeps. Further proof of that fact arrived last week when Congress slapped together and passed two measures: a $1.4 trillion must-pass government spending bill and a $900 billion Covid-relief bill.
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Diablo is a marine life killer Diablo Canyon Power Plant s once-through cooling system (OTC) has finally been identified as a major killer of marine life by the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board ( What lurks beneath, Dec. 17). Before the Water Board gave PG&E a pass in 2015, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace commissioned San Diego-based Powers Engineering to study the environmental damage caused by OTC. That study documented that Diablo Canyon s cooling system draws in 2.5 billion gallons of water per day and discharges that water back into the cove 20 degrees (F) hotter, devoid of any life. Each year of operation, the plant sucks in more than a billion fish in early life stages while killing vast amounts of plankton, the foundation of life in our oceans.
REGIONAL â The East Bayâs public power agency recently green-lighted a plan to accept nuclear power from Pacific Gas & Electric Co. next year, and attempt to flip it to a third party for a profit.
The board of directors for East Bay Community Energy (EBCE), voted 12-2 in favor of the yearlong nuclear monetization plan. Albany and Hayward representatives voted no.
The board also includes elected representatives from Livermore, Dublin and Pleasanton. Mayor Melissa Hernandez represents Dublin, Vice Mayor Trish Munro represents Livermore, outgoing Councilmember Jerry Pentin represents Pleasanton and District 1 Supervisor Scott Haggerty, who spearheaded the creation of EBCE, represents customers in unincorporated Alameda County.
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Pacific Gas & Electric Company took the 1,118-megawatt (MW) Diablo Canyon 02 unit offline on December 3 at its Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Station in California after a reactor scram due to increased hydrogen usage on a main generator. This event is expected to end January 8.