Diablo Canyon was scheduled to shut down completely by 2025 but three years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom made an about-face, fearing that closing the plant could jeopardize electric reliability and make ...

The licensing for Diablo Canyon Power Plant's Units 1 and 2 was set to expire in 2024 and 2025 respectively, but Tuesday's decision means the plant can continue to generate electricity while the ...

As recently as 2022, PG&E was moving forward with plans to shut down the Diablo Canyon Power Plant. Its current licenses set to expire in 2024 for Unit 1 and 2025 for Unit 2, California's last ...

A 3.2 magnitude earthquake shook part of San Luis Obispo County near Diablo Canyon Power Plant on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at 12:05 p.m.

In May 2023, PG&E estimated it might cost $5.2 billion to operate Diablo Canyon from roughly 2025 through 2030, the first five years of the extended operations at the nuclear complex.

PG&E admitted in its grant application to the U.S. Department of Energy that Diablo Canyon had suffered more than $2.1 billion in above-market costs during the most recent five years on record.

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant on June 1, 2023. If the NRC approves the license renewals, Units 1 and 2 would have the option to operate until 2044 and 2045, respectively.

Should Diablo Canyon continue to operate another 20 years, there’s a 2.8% probability of a “severe accident,” according to an analysis conducted by Peter Bird, a professor emeritus of ...

Here’s how things break down: Operating Diablo Canyon from 2024 to 2030 will cost roughly $8.3 billion dollars, $1.2 billion of which is being paid for by state and federal programs.

Estimates of the cost of operating Diablo Canyon past 2025 differ dramatically. PG&E has approximated the cost of running the plant until 2030 at about $5 billion, according to TURN, a utility ...

Keeping the aging Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant open for five years may cost dramatically more than what PG&E previously indicated. Investigative reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken has more.

Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, shown here on Oct. 25, is the last of its kind in California. (Laura Dickinson/San Luis Obsipo Tribune/TNS) ...