California is shutting down its last nuclear plant

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18 points·bryan0··5 comments

This is good. Now that the skies are blotted out by smoke during prime summer months, and the rivers are running dry due to drought, it's a really smart idea to double down on weather-dependent power sources.

In 10-15 years, the entire world is going to be clamoring to build as many nuclear power plants as we can in the shortest amount of time possible. Why we would be shutting them down now is beyond stupid. I get that it's not politically viable, but irrationality has no place in such dire circumstances.

Oh well. Not much we can do about it, I suppose.

We need a mad-men style rebrand of nuclear. “Spicy hot-rox” maybe, could get better PR

Yeah, that's really not a bad idea at all. It needs a kickass PR campaign.

Agreed on all fronts. I spent some of my childhood running around in their simulation control room. It's a really old plant. I would have preferred to see a tech refresh, replacing DCPP with many small modular modern nuclear power plants spread evenly throughout the state. All states for that matter. Idaho is working on some for the military but it will probably be a while before those are deployed commercially. Wyoming is about to have some newer nuclear plants so there is hope but those are also a ways out.

California is shutting down its last nuclear plant and replacing it with natural gas.

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