CA nuclear moratorium holds

From Committee to Bridge the Gap, founded by the late Dan Hirsch, special to the Lassen County Times:

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Committee to Bridge the Gap today welcomed the failure of AB2647, the latest in a series of annual attempts to overturn California’s moratorium on new nuclear power plant construction.

The bill was amended, removing the moratorium provisions and adding language for a state study, just days before its hearing in the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources.

“California’s nuclear moratorium has always carried a clear condition: it may be lifted when there exists a way to dispose of the long-lived radioactive waste,” said Haakon Williams, executive director of Committee to Bridge the Gap. “It has now been 50 years since the state put that condition in place, and those decades have revealed it to be a wise policy. We are hardly any closer today than we were in 1976 to figuring out how to responsibly dispose of spent nuclear fuel, which remains dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years.”

(Diablo Canyon photo by Tracey Adams licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.)