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Diablo Canyon / Delaying Nuclear Station Shutdown Could Have Multiple Benefits For California, Say Researchers

By David Dalton
16 November 2021

Reactors could produce hydrogen and help relieve state’s chronic water shortage
Delaying Nuclear Station Shutdown Could Have Multiple Benefits For California, Say Researchers
Using Diablo Canyon as a power source for desalination could substantially augment fresh water supplies to California.
Delaying the shutdown of the two-unit Diablo Canyon nuclear power station in California by 10 years to 2035 could provide multiple benefits by simultaneously helping to stabilise the state’s electric grid, provide desalinated water to supplement the area’s chronic water shortages, and provide carbon-free hydrogen fuel for transportation, according to a report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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