Utility owner Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) announced in June
2016 that it would shut down the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant
with its two atomic reactors by 2025 due to a joint proposal made by
PG&E and several environmental and labor organizations. This
action is neither the beginning nor the end to the decades long story
of Diablo Canyon’s design, construction, and operation. PG&E’s
promise to replace the nuclear power generated by Diablo Canyon’s two
reactors with renewable energy and to no longer seek a 20-year license
renewal for these atomic reactors still comes with significant costs.
The two are reactors located on multiple California fault lines and
now will continue to operate for nearly a decade more. In the second
part to this Fairewinds Energy Education Podcast series, the
Fairewinds Crew will share the troubled history of Diablo Canyon and
speak with the leading activists in opposition to Diablo Canyon’s
ominous 50-year presence along the California coast.
The formidable San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace have acted as
legal intervenors to the construction, licensing, and operation of
Diablo Canyon since 1973.
During
Part 2 of our Diablo Canyon series entitled “A Mother’s Work is Never
Done”, Fairewinds President Maggie Gundersen talks with Mothers
for Peace Vice President Linda Seeley about what it means to be a
legal intervenor and why this watchdog role is so important when it
comes to atomic power reactors.
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