Nuclear energy’s MAGA comeback in the AI era

Nuclear energy’s MAGA comeback in the AI era To Lydia Moynihan: We would like to correct a fact in your article regarding Diablo Canyon retirement at https://nypost.com/2025/03/21/business/nuclear-energys-maga-comeback-in-the-ai-era/. California's Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) was given an operations extension to at least 2030 by the passage of California SB 846 (Dodd, 2022) on September 2, 2022. The plant's owner PG&E has applied for a standard 20 year extension to 2045 with the NRC regarding the plant's initial operation license. The independent nonprofit Californians for Green Nuclear Power (CGNP) was the organization that led the effort which resulted in the passage of SB 846. Despite many obstacles, CGNP continues to fight for DCPP extended operations. Surprisingly, Warren Buffett leads the likely effort to shut down DCPP for one of Buffett's firms financial gain. (This has parallels to the needless closure of Indian Point in 2021 which was lobbied for by fossil fuel interests.) PacifiCorp has sold about a billion dollars of mostly coal-fired power to replace San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) when SONGS was needlessly shut down at the end of January, 2012 instead of being repaired. PacifiCorp recently spent well over $10 million lobbying at the state and federal level. The likely business purpose is to increase its sales of coal-fired power into the lucrative California power market. California must annually import about 100 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity where 1 TWh is a billion kilowatt-hours. This is the greatest amount of imports of any state. PacifiCorp is poised to take advantage of this structural weakness. PacifiCorp owns a fleet of coal-fired power plants in Wyoming and nearby states. Their total generation capacity is about 6,000 megawatts. To learn more, please review several relevant articles at CGNP's GreenNUKE Substack. Gene Nelson, Ph.D. CGNP Senior Legal Researcher and President Californians for Green Nuclear Power, Inc. (CGNP) 1375 East Grand Ave Ste 103 #523 Arroyo Grande, CA 93420-2421 (805) 363 - 4697 cell Government@CGNP.org email https://CGNP.org website https://greennuke.substack.com Substack