Now Climate Alarmists Want To Save This Nuclear Power Plant

Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) / Nuclear Power - Economics, Design, & Industry

Date posted: 02/08/16

Andrew Follett reports that academics and activists worried about global warming are begging California Gov. Jerry Brown to save the last nuclear power plant in the state. The group argues California can not meet its global warming goals without the plant, but the push to save it may spark conflict with environmentalists (aka adversaries) who have opposed nuclear power for years. They were writing as scientists, conservationists, and philanthropists to urge you to do everything in your powers to ensure that California last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon Power Plant, is relicensed, said a letter to Brown. Diablo Canyon provided 22% of all the clean energy electricity generated in California in 2014. The open letter was signed by climate scientists and environmental activists including James Hansen, Kerry Emanuel, and Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. The letter asks the governor to renew the reactor operating license, which begins expiring in 2024, and calls for a renewed operating license that could keep the plant running into the 2040s. Both The Sierra Club and Friends of The Earth (both are commercial adversarial companies) allege the California nuclear plant is vulnerable to earthquakes, but both groups oppose virtually all uses of nuclear power regardless of earthquakes (Lame). The Sierra Club opposes all nuclear power because it contributes to energy over-use and unnecessary economic growth (if you can imagine that). While Friends of The Earth opposes the construction of all nuclear reactors. Both groups are paid to lobby against nuclear power in an attempt to increase the cost of building nuclear reactors and create artificial delays in nuclear construction. As the campaign against climate change has gathered steam in recent years (not true), old controversies surrounding nuclear energy have been re-ignited. But Nuclear plants are more environmentally friendly in many respects than wind or solar.