The following links to California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) proceedings show almost all documents filed in the case by utilities, other parties, and CPUC, except for testimony and hearing transcripts.
Note: For older cases, prior to mid-2006 (like the San Onofre Steam Generator Replacement), CPUC only posted its own rulings and decisions on its website.
- Long-Term Procurement Plans - http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/proceedings/A1005006.htm
- San Onofre Steam Generator Replacement - http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/proceedings/A0402026.htm
- PG&E Seismic Studies - http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/proceedings/A001014.htm
- San Onofre Seismic Studies - http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/proceedings/A1104006.htm
- Diablo Relicensing (closed) - http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/proceedings/A1001022.htm
- Energy Efficiency - http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/proceedings/R0911014.htm
- Renewable Portfolio Standard - http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/proceedings/R1105005.htm
WEM CALLS FOR CPUC ACTION >>>
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced April 19th that it is proposing national standards to ensure grid-reliability of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response. Women’s Energy Matters (WEM) welcomes standards that would demonstrate that clean resources can be substituted for nuclear power, and the lights will stay on! >>>
Resources - Links >>>
Links to other nuclear watchdog groups around the world, plus archives of key nuclear documents
Great East Japan Earthquake - First Anniversary >>>
From Fukushima We Change the World by Sachiko Sato >>>
Fukushima Stories >>>
media reports around the world
WEM's Alternative Procurement Plan Testimony in the Long-Term Procurement Proceeding:
WEM is proposing for utilities to shut down the nukes and replace them with energy efficiency. The attachment is our chart showing that California has 56% excess power with nukes, through 2020 - and still has 46% surplus without them, according to official CPUC figures.
WEM's Alternative Procurement Plan & documents >>>
The chart , attached to WEM's Alternative Procurement Plan, shows that California has more than 50% excess energy through 2020, plenty of energy even if both Diablo and San Onofre are closed.
These are CPUC figures - the "Planning Assumptions" that utilities were supposed to use in creating their plans for providing electricity through the next ten years.
How much are they spending on Diablo? With information on the costs, worker exposures etc. @ PG&E's General Rate Case excerpts>>>
The Contamination Chronicle of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
The Contamination Chronicle of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, written by Barbara George (©2000), was a joint project of WEM and the Committee to Minimize Toxic Waste. The piece was instrumental in hastening the closure of the National Tritium Labeling Facility (NTLF), which used the radioactive form of hydrogen "tritium" in mostly industrial applications. Situated in the hills above the UC Berkeley campus, just below the Lawrence Hall of Science — a children's museum — the facility periodically belched tritium into the museum and a half dozen creeks, but radiation monitors in the Hall of Science and the creeks were simply removed when they began to show higher readings.
The piece provides a chronology of Berkeley's famed "RadLab," founded in 1928, which fostered the growth of nuclear technology and the Los Alamos National Lab (part of the WWII "Manhattan Project" which developed the atomic bomb) as well as Lawrence Livermore Lab (LLL) which continues to work on nuclear weapons. The Chronicle touches on the Lab's role in Human Radiation Experiments and the development of radiation standards that ignore the impacts of eating or breathing radioactive particles. continue >>> (pdf)
- After the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl passed over the U.S. West Coast in the spring of 1986 his research uncovered a severe die-off of young birds >>>
- Starhawk, Jackie Cabasso (Western States Legal Foundation), Barbara George (Womans Energy Matters) and others build the case for shutting down California's nukes >>>
Fukushima Fallout: Lessons from Chernobyl
Dr. Dave DeSante is the founder of the Institute for Bird Population in Point Reyes, California.
After the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl passed over the U.S. West Coast in the spring of 1986 his research uncovered a severe die-off of young birds. [Download PDF of study here.]
Ecological Options Network www.eon3.net/
Close Down California’s Nukes
In a rally on the steps of California’s Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) author/organizer Starhawk, Jackie Cabasso (Western States Legal Foundation), Barbara George (Womans Energy Matters) and others build the case for shutting down California’s nukes.
Apr 18, 2011, TheEcological Options Network (EON)"Documenting Solutions" www.eon3.net
Press
- KGO TV, Mark Matthew's report>>> Anti-nuclear protesters demonstrated outside the PUC meeting. They said the disaster in Japan should be a wake-up call
- Press Release - April Actions Committee >>>
- WEM's Nuclear Resource Links >>> Links to other nuclear watchdog groups around the world, plus archives of key nuclear documents.