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War Against Renewables Takes Terrifying Turn in Newsom’s Nuke-Powered California

Author:     Harvey Wasserman
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     October 26, 2023
 Link: War Against Renewables Takes Terrifying Turn in Newsom’s Nuke-Powered California
Stephan:  

Greed, stupidity, and more greed. That’s the nuclear power industry. California, as this article describes, could have a nuclear event that could kill tens of thousands of people and render a large part of southern California, just like Chernobyl, uninhabitable. Does Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) give a damn? They do not.

A dome on one of two containment buildings housing a nuclear reactor at Pacific Gas and Electric’s Diablo Canyon Power Plant, the only operating nuclear powered plant in California on June 26, 2023, in Avila Beach, California.
Credit: Brian Van Der Brug / Los Angeles Times / Getty

The nuclear industry’s war against renewable energy has taken center stage in California under Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, with a terrifying new development now threatening the state and nation with increased risk of intense radioactive fallout.

This week on October 24 — despite earlier assurances — Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) revealed that it will not test its 38-year-old atomic reactor in California’s Diablo Canyon for embrittlement during the current refueling outage, but instead plans to wait until the next outage in 2025 before conducting the crucial safety tests.

Embrittlement transforms a metallic reactor pressure vessel (RPV) as heat, pressure and radiation rob it of resilience. An embrittled reactor pressure vessel can shatter when coolant water is poured in during an emergency, causing massive steam, hydrogen and fission explosions.

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