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Published on Saturday, May 10, 2008
By Thomas D. Elias
EVER since former Vice President Al Gore won an Oscar and a Nobel Prize for his fight against expanding climate change, there have been claims that nuclear power plants are the easy solution. They give phenomenal amounts of energy, after all, without much carbon production.
Some who seek facile solutions say it's about time to dump the safeguards of 1976's Proposition 15, which essentially put a stop to atomic-power facility construction in California after completion of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant on the central coast.
One example: Last fall, Republican Assemblyman Chuck DeVore of Orange County introduced a bill aiming to permit construction of a new nuclear power plant if 20percent of the power were used for desalination facilities. That bill went nowhere, despite rampant threats of a drought.
The legislation met that fate because building and maintaining new nukes is no simple matter, if California's experience means anything
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