Plan to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open splits environmentalists

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Plan to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open splits environmentalists
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California wants to go carbon free, but renewables just can't meet the demand. At least not yet. That energy crunch has pushed Gov. Gavin Newsom to announce his support to keep Diablo Canyon Nuclear plant running.

"The experts at the state energy commission, and the California Independent System Operator, have been saying we're not gonna have enough power in '25, '26, and maybe beyond that," said Dan Richard with Carbon Free California."Maybe even to the end of the decade."

"There are those two reasons to keep the plant going," Richard said."One, to keep the lights on, and the other is because it's a clean energy resource. It's competing with, and displaces, not renewables but natural gas.""I'm listening to arguments, and they are good arguments on both sides," said Bill Allayaud with the Environmental Working Group."But we can do it without nuclear power.

"I don't see it as a fossil fuels versus nukes," Allayaud said."It is nukes versus renewables. The faster, the sooner and the more efficiently we are getting renewables online, the less we need, not just Diablo Canyon, but the gas-fired plants."

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