World Business Academy Celebrates PG&E’s Decision to Close Diablo Canyon as an Important First Step Santa Barbara, CA, June 22, 2016 – The World Business Academy (“Academy”) applauds the recent announcement by PG&E that it plans to close the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in 2025, when its current Nuclear Regulatory Commission operating licenses expire. While […]
Will Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom Close Diablo Canyon?
Update: Safe Energy Project, Close Diablo Canyon Campaign – “This is a big deal, a big deal,” said California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom as he called for a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review of PG&E’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. This review could, we believe, lead to the closure of the state’s last remaining […]
The Inherent Risks of Nuclear Power
Don’t let anyone tell you that nuclear power is an answer to climate change. Read the Academy’s comprehensive white paper on the issue here: Nuclear Power Totally Unqualified to Combat Climate Change Watch Academy President Rinaldo S. Brutoco explain the myriad problems at the Diablo Canyon plant in a lecture at UC Santa Barbara’s Walter H. […]
Reply to San Luis Obispo County Health Department
The following is a point-by-point reply to the criticisms of the San Luis Obispo County Health Department. A report commissioned by the World Business Academy and released on March 3, 2014, demonstrated a real and significant rise in disease related to radiation exposure in the down-wind communities near the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. Prior […]
Diablo Canyon Health Study
As with all active nuclear power plants, Diablo Canyon releases radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere on a regular basis. This radioactive pollution, deemed “acceptable,” by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), is anything but acceptable. The health effects of radioactivity are cumulative in the human body, therefore, the longer an individual has been living near a […]