An environmental group has sued the U.S. Energy Department over its decision to award over $1 billion to help keep California’s last nuclear power plant running beyond a planned closure that was set for 2025. The move opens another battlefront in the fight over the future of Diablo Canyon’s twin reactors. Friends of the Earth, in a complaint filed Tuesday in U.S.
Since then, disputes have swirled about the safety of Diablo Canyon's decades-old reactors, whether taxpayers might be saddled with hundreds of millions of dollars in additional costs and even if the electricity is needed in the age of solar and other green energy. PG&E has long said the twin-domed plant is safe, an assessment endorsed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Biden administration approved $1.1 billion in Energy Department funding in January.
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