Nuclear is the only way forward to mitigate carbon emissions, Diablo Canyon provides high paying jobs, is in a safe location security wise, provides 10% of the state’s power, and supports nuclear engineering so that the skills involved in the running nuclear power plants aren’t lost in the california university system, which makes future nuclear engineers more capable and competent, and makes nuclear power generation across the united states safer for generations.
They really should be looking into building a new plant now while they have the 10-20 year period. At least one somewhere in California to keep the knowledge.
@@42luke93 Look at this before you want a new nuclear power plant. Please don’t assume that YT videos are factual. If you live in the U.S. here is the reality for the last 4 state of the art Westinghouse AP1000 ADVANCED passive safety features new nuclear power projects and spent fuel reprocessing and in the U.S. over the last 20 years. You decide if this YT video was presenting the truth. The Southeastern U.S. is super pro-nuclear MAGA, has zero anti-nukes, and 100% media and political support. The MOX facility (South Carolina) was a U.S. government nuclear reprocessing facility that was supposed to mix pure weapon grade Pu239 with U238 to make reactor fuel assemblies. It was canceled (2017) in the U.S. After spending $10 billion for a plant that was originally estimated to cost $1 billion and an independent report that estimated it would cost $100 billion to complete the plant and process all the Pu239, Trump canceled the project in 2017. VC Summer (South Carolina) new nuclear units 2&3 were canceled in 2017 after spending $17 billion on the project (original estimate of $14 billion and 2016 completion date) with no clear end in sight for costs or schedule. Vogtle (Georgia) new nuclear units 3 &4 currently 110% over budget and schedule (currently over $30 billion) and still not operating. Mid way into the build, the utility stated that had they known about the many costly delays they would never have chosen nuclear. They are now delayed another year because according to the project management, thousands of build documents are missing. If completed, Vogtle will be, for its output, the world’s most expensive nuclear power plant. Please google any of this to confirm. If you can’t build new nuclear in the MAGA super pro-nuclear southeast U.S. then where can you build it?
Wrong, so very wrong. Commercial nuclear construction has _zero chance_ of providing the energy capacity needed to offset global fossil fuels. Furthermore, the next 10 to 20 years will be critical to mitigate the worst of climate change according to UN projections. But it takes 10 to 20 years to build a single nuclear power plant! That and each nuclear projects ends up being over-budget by billions of dollars each and every time. The US, Canada, France haven't built a new plant in decades. Germany has completely abandoned nuclear. A long list of other countries won't touch it. How then is nuclear the "only way forward"? Puhleese! Nuclear only provides some 10% of the power to the world's grids after some 70+ years since commercial nuclear was first introduced. Commercial nuclear would be happy to be a "has been" because it's actually in the "never was" category. Meanwhile, solar capacity is at 200TWh annual in the US but has been growing at 30% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the past 12 years. The growth is phenomenal. At this rate, solar alone will blow past US 800TWh annual nuclear generation somewhere in 2027 to 2030 and leave nuclear power in the dust. By 2033 to 2035, solar generation alone can equal the US 4000TWh annual grid energy consumption. All this and I haven't even mentioned wind power which currently is greater than solar capacity in the US. Commercial nuclear power has had a 50+ year head start on renewables too. On the other hand, nuclear capacity in the US is only growing 1.5% CAGR if we're being generous. Worldwide nuclear capacity growth is actually negative. Every dollar spent on building new nuclear power plants instead of on renewable projects sets the global energy transition back that much more. Less than 1% of the world's land surface in current generation photovoltaics can power all the world's grids. There is enough offshore wind to power the world several times over. All the combined fossil and fissile energy on Earth would amount to a bucket in an ocean compared to the daily amounts of energy the Earth receives from the cosmically large fusion power reactor we get in the sky for free.
@@jonjamison4711 If you have a better solution on how to prevent insulator arcing in that dry dusty climate they are all ears. And yes they do wash the insulators more frequently than any other utility and use the very same equipment. When they cut power to areas that have wildfires that are not caused by then to prevent the smoke from arcing insulators people bitch. Other states just tell their people that it happens occasionally and deal with it. But Californians want protection from everything but don't want to pay for it. I lived there for 7 years and in every part of the country. You take the good with the bad and you pay for what most people want. I loved California for many things but the bad eventually out weighed to good and I left.
@@clarkkent9080 no reason to "let the market decide" with our power grid anymore, regardless of the micro. As long as there's a profit motive, corners will continue being cut
See I would love to see more nuclear power... maybe not on a fault line mind you... but here we have a nuclear plant and yeah we don't need to do a bunch of these inspections, it's not important... I'm sorry, is it still operating? Yes? then why aren't the inspections important? That's my fear of nuclear power, is the owners of said plant in this case PG&E really taking a lackadaisical approach to it because "hey it's going to be shut down 'soon' anyways"
Here is more nuclear power Please don’t assume that YT videos are factual. If you live in the U.S. here is the reality for the last 4 state of the art Westinghouse AP1000 ADVANCED passive safety features new nuclear power projects and spent fuel reprocessing and in the U.S. over the last 20 years. You decide if this YT video was presenting the truth. The Southeastern U.S. is super pro-nuclear MAGA, has zero anti-nukes, and 100% media and political support. The MOX facility (South Carolina) was a U.S. government nuclear reprocessing facility that was supposed to mix pure weapon grade Pu239 with U238 to make reactor fuel assemblies. It was canceled (2017) in the U.S. After spending $10 billion for a plant that was originally estimated to cost $1 billion and an independent report that estimated it would cost $100 billion to complete the plant and process all the Pu239, Trump canceled the project in 2017. VC Summer (South Carolina) new nuclear units 2&3 were canceled in 2017 after spending $17 billion on the project (original estimate of $14 billion and 2016 completion date) with no clear end in sight for costs or schedule. Vogtle (Georgia) new nuclear units 3 &4 currently 110% over budget and schedule (currently over $30 billion) and still not operating. Mid way into the build, the utility stated that had they known about the many costly delays they would never have chosen nuclear. They are now delayed another year because according to the project management, thousands of build documents are missing. If completed, Vogtle will be, for its output, the world’s most expensive nuclear power plant. Please google any of this to confirm. If you can’t build new nuclear in the MAGA super pro-nuclear southeast U.S. then where can you build it?
@@ml-jt6eg Who said? Right now in California there are hundreds of companies that will come to your home to cover 100% of your energy needs rain or shine windy or calm and most systems at least half of what paying a company for 10-20 year timeframe. 5k system for $11,000 and up. That's today not years from now...
@Paul Mobley sure assuming that your true up won’t offset those prices. Then you have to take into account homes that don’t get enough sun coverage to make solar worthwhile. Then there’s apartments. Rentals that won’t go solar due to not profiting them since the renter covers electric. Being locked into a house if you finance since a buyer doesn’t have to accept the finance on solar. Wasn’t it California that was or has slashed how much you can sell excess energy? While solar may work for you, it does not for everybody. While 11K and up might be easy for you, a lot of Californians do live paycheck to paycheck. While PG&E is a evil corporation, amazingly they do have programs to help the people pay less based on income. One of the problems with those hundreds of companies that sell solar is that they can quickly fold and sell off their business. Then if you have a problem with your solar finding who covers your warranty can be next to impossible.
@@ml-jt6eg What do you mean? Most areas on the planet do get enough sunlight today to cover 100% of your energy needs. The others can use safe, clean, cheap (which leaves nuclear out) and much less complex systems using water to boil to steam to turn a turbine. Solar and winds best pro is that neither of them need this extra step in producing power which greatly outweighs the cons against them. Edit: If Californians are living paycheck to paycheck then why are they paying a company triple the amount for the same power and making massive profits in the process laughing all the way to the bank while they get grants, loans, subsidies and bailouts from the citizens of the states they reside in while the citizens get nothing? This is the JP Morgan system that Tesla was trying to fight against and why Morgan said if we can't put a meter on it and charge people money for it, then it isn't going to happen. That's corruption at the highest levels and was a hundred years ago
The cost is what you should fear. Please don’t assume that YT videos are factual. If you live in the U.S. here is the reality for the last 4 state of the art Westinghouse AP1000 ADVANCED passive safety features new nuclear power projects and spent fuel reprocessing and in the U.S. over the last 20 years. You decide if this YT video was presenting the truth. The Southeastern U.S. is super pro-nuclear MAGA, has zero anti-nukes, and 100% media and political support. The MOX facility (South Carolina) was a U.S. government nuclear reprocessing facility that was supposed to mix pure weapon grade Pu239 with U238 to make reactor fuel assemblies. It was canceled (2017) in the U.S. After spending $10 billion for a plant that was originally estimated to cost $1 billion and an independent report that estimated it would cost $100 billion to complete the plant and process all the Pu239, Trump canceled the project in 2017. VC Summer (South Carolina) new nuclear units 2&3 were canceled in 2017 after spending $17 billion on the project (original estimate of $14 billion and 2016 completion date) with no clear end in sight for costs or schedule. Vogtle (Georgia) new nuclear units 3 &4 currently 110% over budget and schedule (currently over $30 billion) and still not operating. Mid way into the build, the utility stated that had they known about the many costly delays they would never have chosen nuclear. They are now delayed another year because according to the project management, thousands of build documents are missing. If completed, Vogtle will be, for its output, the world’s most expensive nuclear power plant. Please google any of this to confirm. If you can’t build new nuclear in the MAGA super pro-nuclear southeast U.S. then where can you build it?
I would love to see PG&E abandon Taxifornia and let it become the first state in the nation showing what happens when you listen to those that want communist government over regulation and uneducated eco-terrorist wanting solar and wind energy to save the planet. These entities want Taxifornia to live back in the dark ages I wish PG&E would give them what they wish.
Nuclear is the only way forward to mitigate carbon emissions, Diablo Canyon provides high paying jobs, is in a safe location security wise, provides 10% of the state’s power, and supports nuclear engineering so that the skills involved in the running nuclear power plants aren’t lost in the california university system, which makes future nuclear engineers more capable and competent, and makes nuclear power generation across the united states safer for generations.
They really should be looking into building a new plant now while they have the 10-20 year period. At least one somewhere in California to keep the knowledge.
@@42luke93 Look at this before you want a new nuclear power plant.
Please don’t assume that YT videos are factual. If you live in the U.S. here is the reality for the last 4 state of the art Westinghouse AP1000 ADVANCED passive safety features new nuclear power projects and spent fuel reprocessing and in the U.S. over the last 20 years. You decide if this YT video was presenting the truth.
The Southeastern U.S. is super pro-nuclear MAGA, has zero anti-nukes, and 100% media and political support.
The MOX facility (South Carolina) was a U.S. government nuclear reprocessing facility that was supposed to mix pure weapon grade Pu239 with U238 to make reactor fuel assemblies. It was canceled (2017) in the U.S. After spending $10 billion for a plant that was originally estimated to cost $1 billion and an independent report that estimated it would cost $100 billion to complete the plant and process all the Pu239, Trump canceled the project in 2017.
VC Summer (South Carolina) new nuclear units 2&3 were canceled in 2017 after spending $17 billion on the project (original estimate of $14 billion and 2016 completion date) with no clear end in sight for costs or schedule.
Vogtle (Georgia) new nuclear units 3 &4 currently 110% over budget and schedule (currently over $30 billion) and still not operating. Mid way into the build, the utility stated that had they known about the many costly delays they would never have chosen nuclear. They are now delayed another year because according to the project management, thousands of build documents are missing. If completed, Vogtle will be, for its output, the world’s most expensive nuclear power plant.
Please google any of this to confirm.
If you can’t build new nuclear in the MAGA super pro-nuclear southeast U.S. then where can you build it?
Wrong, so very wrong.
Commercial nuclear construction has _zero chance_ of providing the energy capacity needed to offset global fossil fuels. Furthermore, the next 10 to 20 years will be critical to mitigate the worst of climate change according to UN projections. But it takes 10 to 20 years to build a single nuclear power plant!
That and each nuclear projects ends up being over-budget by billions of dollars each and every time. The US, Canada, France haven't built a new plant in decades. Germany has completely abandoned nuclear. A long list of other countries won't touch it. How then is nuclear the "only way forward"? Puhleese!
Nuclear only provides some 10% of the power to the world's grids after some 70+ years since commercial nuclear was first introduced. Commercial nuclear would be happy to be a "has been" because it's actually in the "never was" category.
Meanwhile, solar capacity is at 200TWh annual in the US but has been growing at 30% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the past 12 years. The growth is phenomenal. At this rate, solar alone will blow past US 800TWh annual nuclear generation somewhere in 2027 to 2030 and leave nuclear power in the dust. By 2033 to 2035, solar generation alone can equal the US 4000TWh annual grid energy consumption.
All this and I haven't even mentioned wind power which currently is greater than solar capacity in the US. Commercial nuclear power has had a 50+ year head start on renewables too.
On the other hand, nuclear capacity in the US is only growing 1.5% CAGR if we're being generous. Worldwide nuclear capacity growth is actually negative.
Every dollar spent on building new nuclear power plants instead of on renewable projects sets the global energy transition back that much more. Less than 1% of the world's land surface in current generation photovoltaics can power all the world's grids. There is enough offshore wind to power the world several times over. All the combined fossil and fissile energy on Earth would amount to a bucket in an ocean compared to the daily amounts of energy the Earth receives from the cosmically large fusion power reactor we get in the sky for free.
@@beyondfossil shut up Democrat, keep your own rising energy prices. Educated folks know nuclear and fusion energy is the ONLY path forward.
Governor hair gel sure had to backtrack on closing Diablo Canyon down.
pro-nuclear, anti-pg&e here ✌
OH YOU SHUT UP, JON THE TRUMPSTER FREAK!!!!!
well than you can put up the $16 billion for an new plant
@@clarkkent9080 hail corporate! hike my prices and burn down my forests again, daddy
@@jonjamison4711 If you have a better solution on how to prevent insulator arcing in that dry dusty climate they are all ears. And yes they do wash the insulators more frequently than any other utility and use the very same equipment.
When they cut power to areas that have wildfires that are not caused by then to prevent the smoke from arcing insulators people bitch.
Other states just tell their people that it happens occasionally and deal with it. But Californians want protection from everything but don't want to pay for it.
I lived there for 7 years and in every part of the country. You take the good with the bad and you pay for what most people want. I loved California for many things but the bad eventually out weighed to good and I left.
@@clarkkent9080 no reason to "let the market decide" with our power grid anymore, regardless of the micro. As long as there's a profit motive, corners will continue being cut
See I would love to see more nuclear power... maybe not on a fault line mind you... but here we have a nuclear plant and yeah we don't need to do a bunch of these inspections, it's not important... I'm sorry, is it still operating? Yes? then why aren't the inspections important? That's my fear of nuclear power, is the owners of said plant in this case PG&E really taking a lackadaisical approach to it because "hey it's going to be shut down 'soon' anyways"
Not on a fault line. Near a fault line. If your afraid of that then pretty much all of California is near a fault line.
They just pull fast ones to force them to close. Faults are everywhere. They did it to Indian Point in Ny.
Here is more nuclear power
Please don’t assume that YT videos are factual. If you live in the U.S. here is the reality for the last 4 state of the art Westinghouse AP1000 ADVANCED passive safety features new nuclear power projects and spent fuel reprocessing and in the U.S. over the last 20 years. You decide if this YT video was presenting the truth.
The Southeastern U.S. is super pro-nuclear MAGA, has zero anti-nukes, and 100% media and political support.
The MOX facility (South Carolina) was a U.S. government nuclear reprocessing facility that was supposed to mix pure weapon grade Pu239 with U238 to make reactor fuel assemblies. It was canceled (2017) in the U.S. After spending $10 billion for a plant that was originally estimated to cost $1 billion and an independent report that estimated it would cost $100 billion to complete the plant and process all the Pu239, Trump canceled the project in 2017.
VC Summer (South Carolina) new nuclear units 2&3 were canceled in 2017 after spending $17 billion on the project (original estimate of $14 billion and 2016 completion date) with no clear end in sight for costs or schedule.
Vogtle (Georgia) new nuclear units 3 &4 currently 110% over budget and schedule (currently over $30 billion) and still not operating. Mid way into the build, the utility stated that had they known about the many costly delays they would never have chosen nuclear. They are now delayed another year because according to the project management, thousands of build documents are missing. If completed, Vogtle will be, for its output, the world’s most expensive nuclear power plant.
Please google any of this to confirm.
If you can’t build new nuclear in the MAGA super pro-nuclear southeast U.S. then where can you build it?
oh we need nuclear power.
How so?
Because your so called green energy can’t make enough to cover this plant
@@ml-jt6eg Who said? Right now in California there are hundreds of companies that will come to your home to cover 100% of your energy needs rain or shine windy or calm and most systems at least half of what paying a company for 10-20 year timeframe. 5k system for $11,000 and up. That's today not years from now...
@Paul Mobley sure assuming that your true up won’t offset those prices. Then you have to take into account homes that don’t get enough sun coverage to make solar worthwhile. Then there’s apartments. Rentals that won’t go solar due to not profiting them since the renter covers electric. Being locked into a house if you finance since a buyer doesn’t have to accept the finance on solar. Wasn’t it California that was or has slashed how much you can sell excess energy? While solar may work for you, it does not for everybody. While 11K and up might be easy for you, a lot of Californians do live paycheck to paycheck. While PG&E is a evil corporation, amazingly they do have programs to help the people pay less based on income. One of the problems with those hundreds of companies that sell solar is that they can quickly fold and sell off their business. Then if you have a problem with your solar finding who covers your warranty can be next to impossible.
@@ml-jt6eg What do you mean? Most areas on the planet do get enough sunlight today to cover 100% of your energy needs. The others can use safe, clean, cheap (which leaves nuclear out) and much less complex systems using water to boil to steam to turn a turbine. Solar and winds best pro is that neither of them need this extra step in producing power which greatly outweighs the cons against them.
Edit: If Californians are living paycheck to paycheck then why are they paying a company triple the amount for the same power and making massive profits in the process laughing all the way to the bank while they get grants, loans, subsidies and bailouts from the citizens of the states they reside in while the citizens get nothing? This is the JP Morgan system that Tesla was trying to fight against and why Morgan said if we can't put a meter on it and charge people money for it, then it isn't going to happen. That's corruption at the highest levels and was a hundred years ago
Another healthy dose of fear.
Dose of fear? What do you know of Organically Bound Tritium?
Brought to you by the Natural Gas Lobb- err, I mean Green party.
The cost is what you should fear.
Please don’t assume that YT videos are factual. If you live in the U.S. here is the reality for the last 4 state of the art Westinghouse AP1000 ADVANCED passive safety features new nuclear power projects and spent fuel reprocessing and in the U.S. over the last 20 years. You decide if this YT video was presenting the truth.
The Southeastern U.S. is super pro-nuclear MAGA, has zero anti-nukes, and 100% media and political support.
The MOX facility (South Carolina) was a U.S. government nuclear reprocessing facility that was supposed to mix pure weapon grade Pu239 with U238 to make reactor fuel assemblies. It was canceled (2017) in the U.S. After spending $10 billion for a plant that was originally estimated to cost $1 billion and an independent report that estimated it would cost $100 billion to complete the plant and process all the Pu239, Trump canceled the project in 2017.
VC Summer (South Carolina) new nuclear units 2&3 were canceled in 2017 after spending $17 billion on the project (original estimate of $14 billion and 2016 completion date) with no clear end in sight for costs or schedule.
Vogtle (Georgia) new nuclear units 3 &4 currently 110% over budget and schedule (currently over $30 billion) and still not operating. Mid way into the build, the utility stated that had they known about the many costly delays they would never have chosen nuclear. They are now delayed another year because according to the project management, thousands of build documents are missing. If completed, Vogtle will be, for its output, the world’s most expensive nuclear power plant.
Please google any of this to confirm.
If you can’t build new nuclear in the MAGA super pro-nuclear southeast U.S. then where can you build it?
Hopefully it will be overturned and closed. A major earthquake fault line and no current inspections and upgrades=major environmental disaster.
Of course they say they can bring it up to today's standards. They want to raise rates AGAIN, and the repairs will never be made.
I would love to see PG&E abandon Taxifornia and let it become the first state in the nation showing what happens when you listen to those that want communist government over regulation and uneducated eco-terrorist wanting solar and wind energy to save the planet. These entities want Taxifornia to live back in the dark ages I wish PG&E would give them what they wish.
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