Abstract
The California Energy Commission has voted to appeal recent court decision that declared unconstitutional California law linking future nuclear power plant construction in the state to satisfactory solution of the nuclear waste disposal problem. The vote was unanimous—four to zero. It would have been four to one, but Alan Pasternak, the one strong pronuclear advocate on the commission, was in Atlanta when the vote was taken. He was there telling meeting of the Atomic Industrial Forum (AIF) how California's linkage law has hurt the state and how similar laws could hurt the U.S. It may be no more than coincidental that, when he returned to California, Pasternak announced that he was resigning from the California Energy Commission effective June 30. Three years ago, the state legislature passed law that blocks new nuclear power plant construction in the state until there is a demonstrated technology or means for the disposal of ...
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