RE: Nuclear solution to California power crisis urged

["Bob Hearn" <rah@america.net>]

Another uninformed journalist inserts his limited view as "fact"

inconspicuously tacked on to the quotes of others. No one seems to remember

the heated debate on closing Rancho Seco in the late 1980's when

Californians decreed that they did not need the power supplied by that

plant.  In addition to counting all reactors at a site (e.g., 3 built at San

Onofre, 2 at Diablo Canyon) as a single "generator" (while the contrasted 25

was the number of planned reactors), his indication that "Only two were

built..."  ignores Rancho Seco and Humboldt Bay, as well, conveniently

overlooked!



The power shortage is a result of multiple factors, but lack of base

capacity is largely on the account of anti-nuclear detractors.



Bob Hearn

rah@america.net





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Nuclear solution to California power crisis urged



(ENN) April 1, 2001, To end California's electricity shortage, the

state should build a nuclear power plant to run pumps that bring

Sierra-fed water to Southern California, an Inland lawmaker said

Thursday.

"It's time to revisit nuclear," said Assemblyman Bill Leonard, R-San

Bernardino. He said nuclear power is clean and affordable.

The nuclear plant would be only the third built in the state and the

first to be publicly owned and operated.

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At one time, privately owned electric utilities planned to build 25

nuclear generators along California's coast, said former state Energy

Commission member Gene Varanini.



Only two were built, including the San Onofre plant near San

Clemente, of which Southern California Edison is majority owner and

Riverside has a small stake. The other is Pacific Gas & Eectric's

Diablo Canyon reactor in San Luis Obispo County.



The law Leonard wants to suspend says the state should not license

additional nuclear power plants until the federal Nuclear Regulatory

America’s deepening energy troubles,” according to the Industry