Initiative Would Shutter California Nuclear Plants For Decades While Feds Ponder Waste
Source: Forbes
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen cleared an initiative Wednesday that would shut down California’s two existing nuclear power plants until the federal government figures out what to do with the used fuel—a process expected to take at least 35 Years.
The initiative (pdf) now moves to the signature collection phase. It needs 504,760 signatures to qualify for the 2014 ballot.
The initiative is sponsored by California’s “Nuclear Terminator,” Ben Davis Jr. who helped write an initiative that shut down the Rancho Seco nuclear plant near Sacramento in 1989.
This is his second attempt to use this strategy to shutter the Diablo Canyon and San Onofre plants. He failed to gather enough signatures for the November ballot after the California Legislative Analyst’s office issued a report saying the iniative could result in rolling blackouts, an assertion that Davis and other supporters of the initiative dispute.
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Read more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2013/02/08/initiative-would-shutter-california-nuclear-plants-for-decades-while-feds-ponder-waste/
I think this is the initiative's website: http://californianuclearinitiative.com/
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I used to live a couple of miles from Rancho Seco...
And though I lived in the area... I had NO IDEA until recently.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco_Nuclear_Generating_Station
