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California's Last Nuclear Plant to Close Up Shop
2016-06-21 13:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will announce Tuesday it will close California's last nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, in 2025, ending atomic energy's more than a half-century history in the state. The move will shutter a plant whose construction on a seaside cliff surrounded by earthquake faults helped create the antinuclear movement. And yet, some conservationists have fought to keep Diablo open, arguing California needed its vast output of greenhouse gas-free electricity to fight global warming....
Deal will close California's last nuclear plant by 2025
2016-06-21 10:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Rooftop solar panels and churning wind turbines are hastening the demise of U.S. nuclear power plants and the safety fears and high operating costs they bring. The latest example is California's Diablo Canyon twin-reactor facility. California's largest utility and environmental groups announced a deal Tuesday to shutter the last nuclear power plant in the state. The move comes as the operators of the country's aging nuclear facilities confront rising repair bills at a time when sources of...
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Californias Last Nuclear Power Plant Could Close
2016-06-21 08:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: California, among the first states to embrace nuclear energy in the 1950s, may be breaking things off for good. Under a proposal announced on Tuesday, Pacific Gas and Electric would shutter the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, the states last operating nuclear facility, and would compensate for the lost output with technologies that do not emit greenhouse gases, including renewable energy. The proposal, part of an agreement with environmental and labor groups, is intended to help meet Californias aggressive...
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UK government needs a nuclear plan B, says Tim Yeo
2016-06-19 17:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ministers need to talk to the Chinese about fast-tracking the planned reactor at Bradwell in Essex because the future of the 18bn Hinkley Point project is so uncertain, according to a leading pro-nuclear campaigner. Tim Yeo, a former chair of the energy and climate change committee, said the government should also consider whether the Russian state operator, Rosatom, or the British state could build new atomic plants. The Hinkley project in Somerset has been hit by a series of delays, with...
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It's the first new U.S. nuclear reactor in decades
2016-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In an immaculate control room at the Watts Bar nuclear plant, green bars flash on a large screen, signaling something that has not happened in the United States in two decades. As control rods lift from the water in the core, and neutrons go about the business of splitting uranium atoms, life comes to a new nuclear reactor -- the first in the country since its sister reactor here was licensed in 1996. By summers end, authorities expect the new reactor at this complex along the Chickamauga...
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