Amy Goodman
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After Decades of Protest, Last California Nuclear Plant to Close & Be Replaced by Renewable Energy
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8:25Now PlayingIn a major victory for environmentalists, California is going nuclearfree, ending atomic energy’s more than halfcentury history in the state. On Tuesday, one of the state’s largest utilities agreed to a proposal endorsed by environmental groups and labor unions to shutter California’s last operating nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, by 2025. California is the world’s sixth largest economy, and it was among the first states to embrace nuclear energy in the 1950s. Diablo Canyon began operating in 1985 and stirred controversy from the start. For years, antinuclear activists called for the plant’s closure because of safety concerns over its precarious location near several major earthquake fault lines. We speak to Damon Moglen of Friends of the Earth. The organization has been fighting for the plant’s closure since the 1960s.
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