{"id":12939,"date":"2021-02-27T12:14:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T12:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=12939"},"modified":"2021-03-01T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T11:06:24","slug":"2021-02-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2021-02-28\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shutdown of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Gene Nelson<\/h3>\n<p><strong>11 a.m., February 28, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At this Sunday\u2019s Humanist Forum, Gene Nelson will discuss \u201cThe Shutdown of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, PG&amp;E announced that it would not renew the licenses for the plant. In 2018 the California Public Utilities Commission approved the shutdown scheduled for 2024-2025.<\/p>\n<p>Gene Nelson will present the case for reversing this decision. Gene is the Government Liaison of Californians for Green Nuclear Power. Gene has been active in matters of science and public policy, providing testimony on Diablo Canyon Power Plant\u2019s safety, reliability, and emission-free power before the Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee, California Coastal Commission, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the State Water Resources Control Board, and The California Public Utilities Commission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Because of the coronavirus situation, this Forum will be held online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you don&#8217;t intend to ask any questions or make any comments during this Forum<\/strong>, then please click the below link on Sunday around 11 a.m. in order to view the Forum as it occurs (in real time):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.echoplexmedia.com\/humanist\">https:\/\/www.echoplexmedia.com\/humanist<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you may want to ask a question or make a comment during this Forum<\/strong>, then please click the below link on Sunday around 11 a.m. in order to view, and possibly take part in, the Forum as it occurs (in real time):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/314247393?pwd=d285R2VxWWdNcmk4NHdPaVNpWjc4dz09\">https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/314247393?pwd=d285R2VxWWdNcmk4NHdPaVNpWjc4dz09<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Note: this is a different link than has been posted here previously.)<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have the Zoom app installed on your desktop computer, then joining the meeting via the above link will download and install the Zoom app on your desktop computer, and then take you to the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>You can also install the Zoom app on your smart phone, and then enter:<\/p>\n<p>314247393<\/p>\n<p>as the meeting number, and<\/p>\n<p>255787<\/p>\n<p>as the passcode, to get to this Zoom meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>RSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/276624204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo help our Forum series continue, please consider making a donation or becoming a member (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/membership\/<\/a>) of the Humanist Community.<\/p>\n<p>Do your online shopping at <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/94-6173979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/94-6173979<\/a>, and Amazon donates to the Humanist Community every time you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Nelson 11 a.m., February 28, 2021 At this Sunday\u2019s Humanist Forum, Gene Nelson will discuss \u201cThe Shutdown of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant\u201d. In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, PG&amp;E announced that it would not renew the licenses for the plant. In 2018 the California Public Utilities Commission approved the shutdown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2021-02-28\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Shutdown of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12940,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939\/revisions\/12940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}