Posted on 11/28/2015 2:38:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
Six years ago, the company that owns California's last operating nuclear power plant announced it would seek an extended lifespan for its aging reactors. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. envisioned Diablo Canyon as a linchpin in the state's green energy future, with its low-carbon electricity illuminating homes to nearly midcentury.
Now, with a much changed nuclear power landscape, the company is evaluating whether to meet a tangle of potentially costly state environmental requirements needed to obtain renewed operating licenses.
If it doesn't move forward, California's nuclear power age will end.
That prospect is remarkable considering it was once predicted that meeting California's growing energy needs would require a nuclear power plant every 50 miles along its coast. But vast fields of solar panels, wind turbines that in places are as common as fence posts and developments in power storage speak to changed times.
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Regulated to the dark ages ....
No source of US energy is acceptable to Obola.
Its OK, we can build massive solar farms that fry the birds and wind mills to finish them off to offset shutting san onofre and diablo canyon down.
They can speak all they want, they aren't going to satisfy the state's power requirements.
I never understand the liberals objections to nuclear power.
Nuclear power plants produce none of the greenhouse gases which liberals bitch about. And newer nuclear plants produce less nuclear waste than the older nuclear plants still in operation. This is an issue because we have not been allowed to build new nuclear plants in recent years which use the latest technology.
Meanwhile the population keeps growing, demand for power for all the latest gadgets keeps growing, the electric grid keeps aging, but liberals block many of the actions we could take to keep up with demand for electricity.
Why not put them on Indian Reservations..?
Permitting for citing a nuke takes at least 20 years on “real” US territory.
Nuclear tech has advanced big time.
I think Tonto could clean-up big-time if he went this way and turn it into a win/win for ALL.
California must be limited to ONLY wind and solar. Anything else is evyil.
Edison shut down San Onofre?
Yep. After an equipment upgrade it crapped out. I think it was Chinese made replacement parts.
It’s California. Let them freeze in the dark.
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Whale blubber!
Crapped out how?
GE and Westinghouse killed the US nuclear industry. They lobbied themselves into an oligopoly of meltdown capable high-maintenance reactors, and licensed the technology to Toshiba so they could kill the Japanese and German nuclear industries when the inevitable happened. It didn’t help that the Peanut Farmer in Chief mandated that fuel rods that are still 95% fuel had to be stored until the end of civilization rather than being used.
It’s going to take a politician capable of calling out the morons in both government and industry to kick start the next generation of fission energy policy. So far there hasn’t been a peep from any of this year’s crop of candidates, so it’s probably gonna be at least another 8 years of imbecilic management into the ground before there is even a slight glimmer of hope for a sane nuclear renewal.
A tube bundle support was not installed during steam generator manufacture. The issue was analyzed away. However during operation fretting ware caused by vibration wore away much of the some tubes wall thickness. This occurred because the needed tube support was not installed. Due to steam generator design it was not possible to install the needed support with the steam generators installed in the plant. Due to the cost of steam generator removal, repair, and reinstallation (billions) and the anti nuclear environment in California, the unit owner decided to close the plant.
I believe they were Mitsubishi Heavy Industry steam generators.
I concur.
Oh okay.
See reply 16. Knows way more than I do about it! Haha.
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