Diablo Canyon, California’s last-remaining nuclear energy plant, provoked the US’s greatest ever anti-nuclear demonstration within the early Eighties. The plant was in-built an earthquake zone, the place recollections of the Three Mile Island accident have been nonetheless contemporary. The message was clear: environmentalists noticed no position for nuclear vitality.
Our visitor on this month’s podcast, journalist Maxime Robin, visited California just lately to see how the controversy round nuclear energy has moved on. Because the state grapples with wildfires and megadrought whereas making an attempt to quickly decarbonise its vitality sector, some greens are questioning whether or not Diablo Canyon ought to shut as deliberate in 2025.
