Never should have been built…..

You doomers slay me— the plant leaked radiation MANY times, discharged radiation and was a constant and huge safety violator over and over again…..the tech was old and the plant was on line longer than the original permit called for—- The French and German studies re plants such as SONGS and that era showed increased pediatric cancer for a 3 mile radius around the plants.

Get real.

See here: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/08/local/la-me-san-onofre-nuclear-20130609

With the spread of high tech cruise missiles a nuke plant on the coast may no longer be viable for defense purposes. That might explain the post Japan nuke plant disaster mystery of why California shut down all its nuke plants for a brief period.

But I would replace San Onofre with mini-nuke plants that would provide the long sought holy grail of distributed generation. Each mini nuke power plant could produce enough power for 45,000 homes. They have already been field tested in remote locations and are ultra safe. Watch for Indian Tribes to get permits to start putting them on their reservations possibly some time in the future. Or possibly some U.S. territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, etc.) will start installing them. Once proven the technology would spread. Hyperion’s mini nuke plant technology has a target price of 8 cents per kilowatt hour which would be totally clean and cheap and safe power.

It’s hard to imagine that our electricity rates – among the nation’s highest – will soar even further, but they certainly will.

And the examples of Calico Solar and the Kern County wind farm perfectly illustrate the enormous hypocrisy of the Left.