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I wouldn't call 8.5% insignificant. It's certainly not a majority, or even a plurality, but "insignificant" is surely downplaying its importance.

And if we shut down Diablo Canyon today, what do you think would replace that 8.5% in the years before a replacement solar+battery field could come online? Probably gonna be more natural gas.

8.5% out of one plant for the entire state of California is fucking enormously significant.

I know right? Like install 3-5 more and California would be net 0 for the electricity grid making all those EVs finally meaningfully beneficial to the environment.

Not with the $6B.

The math just doesn't work, even if the solar was free, you could not purchase enough batteries with $6B to replace Diablo Canyon.

Are you going to provide a logical argument or just point to a pie chart and say "hey look nuclear is the smallest!"?