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Re:California's Last Nuclear Power Plant to Be Shut Down by s_q_b on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @04:10AM (#11952251)
Oh certainly the Diablo Canyon plant needs to go. It's running two Gen. II reactors with no passive safety systems in a seismically active zone along a coastline vulnerable to flooding and tsunamis. It's actually rather startling that they closed that plant last.

But I'm not making this about nuclear power in general. The State of California and the media have already done a fine job of that.

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Re:California's Last Nuclear Power Plant to Be Shut Down by kristopolous on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @04:33AM (#11952319)
it's an interesting problem. I understand why these engineers and scientists went through the anti-nuke network to get this thing done, but then the media will frame this as an anti-nuke thing instead of legitimate concern for one specific thing.

I came up with an analogy to help me think about this. Say you are a medical researcher and found some serious adverse health effects to an abortion pill and as a medical professional you think it's unsafe to be on the market. Who do you go through to take action and how will this be portrayed in the media? You have a problem on your hands.

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Re:California's Last Nuclear Power Plant to Be Shut Down by TheHypnotist on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @01:04PM (#11955397)
There are certainly plants that need to be shut down. However, the future of Nuclear and what's on the horizon in terms of reactor technology is so promising it can't be ignored.
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