NYT: Calif. Nuclear Revival? A French Company Rolls the Dice

[wtmusic]

"Conventional wisdom says California is a lousy place to bet on new nuclear power.

In Berkeley, the city government won't buy services of any kind from a company that refuses to sign a "nuclear free" disclosure. In Sacramento, a moratorium against new reactor construction has held since 1976. And statewide, energy developers have a hard enough time securing permits for massive power plants run by renewable energy, much less finding enough political daylight to launch a multibillion-dollar nuclear project.

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Adams said renewables like solar and wind will only get California so far. The state has a climate law on the books, A.B. 32, that goes into full effect in two years that aims at cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. To get there, and to the more stringent 2050 targets, Areva and the Fresno group insist California will have to replace thousands of megawatts in baseload power now generated by coal-fired facilities in Wyoming and other nearby states.

'What they need is baseload, a baseload source of power," said Adams, noting that solar and wind account for about 3 percent of California's total power load. "It's the eighth largest economy in the world, after all.'"

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/01/22/22greenwire-calif-nuclear-revival-a-french-company-rolls-t-32437.html

[kristopher]

1. 'What they need is baseload, a baseload source of power,"

Nuclear Nonsense
Journal or Magazine Article, 2009
http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/2009-10_NuclearNonsense
Stewart Brand’s book, Whole Earth Discipline, features a chapter claiming that new nuclear power plants are
essential and desirable, and that a global “nuclear renaissance” is booming. In this book review, Amory Lovins’
review finds fatal flaws in the chapter’s facts and logic.

[Javaman]

2. Never good to have a headline containing "nuclear and rolling of dice". nt

[madokie]

3. Nuclear is a rolling of the dice

[Javaman]

4. That's my point...

the op has a history of supporting nukes, I don't think it was a wise headline to post to support his position. LOL

[joshcryer]

5. It is common practice to copy the headline of an article.

Especially since if you don't you can get chastised for it here. There may have been a bitter taste in the OPs mouth for posting it, but it was cool by me.

But yeah, I notice the irony (if that's what it's called).