Reply #11: We're talking hypotheticals

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but they're based in reality. There are repercussions to closing San Onofre.

If you take away 1GW of power generation and don't replace it with something else, energy prices will go through the roof. (Check out what happened to Long Island electricity rates after Shoreham was closed, or what Vermonters were looking at had Vermont Yankee's license not been renewed).

If you replace it with coal (most likely), you will be responsible for 120 additional deaths every year from pollution and radiation from coal ash (mostly cancer and respiratory disease).

If you replace it with natural gas, you will be responsible for 32 additional deaths every year.

I'm not at all worried about business as usual - I'm wondering if OP can only pollute the air his friends and family will be breathing, and not mine.