Over at Inside Bay Area.com, Sarah Tribble has put together a nice overview of why policymakers in California are giving nuclear energy a second look. Here's a passage that made me smile:
As California grapples with global warming, energy-industry leaders, environmentalists and policy-makers are subtly — but significantly — starting to shift their thinking about the controversial power source.Here, here.
"Nuclear power has to be part of the solution," Stanford University President John Hennessy said at an alternative-energy gathering in Palo Alto this spring. "Can we really understand the notion of risk? Nuclear plants versus carbon emissions — which will kill and has killed more people?"
The audience applauded.
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We've had a de facto moratorium on nuclear plant construction for 3 decades. We've had the 2001 electric crisis which is still fresh in everyone's memory. And fortunately, we have a state ballot initiative process.
I've always had a lot of confidence in my fellow voters.
Just watch us...
My letter can be found in the pile of letters given at the link below (scroll down when you get there):
http://www.mercurynews.com/lette...ters/ ci_6137337