California regulators vote to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open 5 more years

Re:California regulators vote to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear ... by idopmstuff on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @03:30PM (#38713224)

Do you have any specific criticisms of its safety? Age doesn't make something unreliable or unsafe. If you had a Nokia phone in the 80s, I'll bet that thing is more reliable than any phone produced in the last decade.

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Re:California regulators vote to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear ... by dheera on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @03:37PM (#38713317)

I'm all for more nuclear power displacing natural gas and coal and worse things until we can find a way to deploy renewable energy faster. Nuclear is near-zero carbon, it's just not renewable, but that's less of a problem in the short term.

What I don't like is that Diablo Canyon is built on the shoreline, which is ripe for another Fukushima-like disaster in the event of a tsunami that hits California.

Even if that cliff edge is high it may destabilize with a high enough wave.

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Re:California regulators vote to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear ... by undersuit on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @05:54PM (#38714745)

Reliably unusable and unsafe. The defunct first generation cellphone networks had no encryption.

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