A late-hour attempt to extend the life of California's last nuclear power plant has run into a predicament that will be difficult to resolve: a shortage of time.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom - who once supported closing the plant - did a turnaround last year and argued it needed to keep running beyond the scheduled closure to ward off possible blackouts as the state transitions to solar and other renewable sources. At his urging, the Legislature dissolved a complex 2016 agreement among environmentalists, plant worker unions and the utility to close the plant by 2025, opening a pathway to keep it running longer.
&E with the time-consuming task of submitting a new application that it expects to file by the end of the year. Typically, if a nuclear plant files for a license extension at least five years before the expiration of the existing license, the existing license remains in effect until the NRC's application review is complete, even if it technically passes the expiration date. But PGIn documents submitted to the NRC, the company said the change it's seeking "will not present an undue risk to the public health and safety.
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