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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Let Oregon Voters Reconsider Nuclear Power
Description: Full-text: Earlier this year, Oregon lawmakers proposed legislation allowing voters to reconsider their 1980 decision to effectively ban construction of new nuclear power plants in the state. The bills never received a hearing.
That was unfortunate, because state law requires electricity generation in Oregon to be 100% emissions-free by 2040. In order to phase out coal and natural gas, utilities will need other fuels that can provide clean, round-the-clock power; and nuclear is the only technology capable of doing that.
California has attempted to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar, but the effort is failing. During a...