Press Democrat: PG&E's decision to close Diablo Canyon by 2025 is likely to mark the end of the nuclear power era in California.
For critics of atomic energy, Tuesday's announcement was long overdue and the reactors at the state's last operating nuclear power plant can't be shut down soon enough.
Voluntarily decommissioning forestalls a political battle over relicensing the San Luis Obispo County power plant, and evidently it makes economic sense for PG&E.
But closing the 31-year-old power plant also could...