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New construction of nuclear plants is constitutionally limited in California and has been since well before I was born. Existing capacity is just leftover from
by SllX 8y ago
New construction of nuclear plants is constitutionally limited in California and has been since well before I was born. Existing capacity is just leftover from before that era.
- _rpd 8y agoThere may be some imports of nuclear-sourced power from Arizona and Washington state.
- SllX 8y agoThat might be a possibility, but I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that it is actually pretty pathetic we have to import power to make up our energy needs at all. When I last looked at the stats a few years ago we were importing about 30% of our power from other States and it was trending upwards.
- _rpd 8y agoThe Californian regulatory environment is very costly. It is natural for power producers to build new capacity elsewhere.