> budget instability California recently voted to shut down the last remaining nuclear power facility in California, Diablo Canyon: https://www.latimes.com/bu

> budget instability California recently voted to shut down the last remaining nuclear power facility in California, Diablo Canyon: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-diablo-canyon-nuclear-20180111-story.html https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-diablo-canyon-nuclear... but I don't think it has anything to do with budgets and more to do with the public's perception of safety of fission and officials not wanting to have a meltdown event happen while they're in office.