Los Angeles Department of Water and Power building
are California nukes the way of the future?
Last night, in a segment entitled
Vive Les Nukes, CBS’s
60 Minutes raised the question “Is nuclear power the way of the future?”
In order to help determine if fission-powered electricity generation is the way of the future in California, the newly-launched
Nuclear Power Channel contacted all four of the Golden State’s large utilities (PG&E, SCE, SDG&E, and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power [LADWP]) and asked them whether they will be ordering additional nuclear power for their customers anytime soon.
No word yet from PG&E, SCE, or SDG&E, but LADWP was quick to provide a spokesperson to say that this principal supplier of electricity to 1.4 million customers has no plans to expand its use of nuclear power beyond the 9% it presently sources from the Palo Verde nuclear reactor; that it plans to emphasize the generation of electric power from “clean energy sources such as wind, solar, and geothermal”; and that it plans to reduce the percentage of nuclear power it uses as it further ramps up its recently-doubled reliance on renewable energy sources.
Kim Hughes, LADWP spokesperson, also said that LADWP has no interest in using natural gas delivered to any
LNG terminal that may eventually be built 14 miles off Malibu, California, and 20 miles off Oxnard, California.
an audio conversation with Kim Hughes, spokesperson for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
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