Jacopo Buongiorno

Professor of nuclear science and engineering; director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems at MIT

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Diablo Canyon is supposed to start closing in a few years, but a Stanford-MIT report says keeping it open would help California transition to clean energy.

With clean energy push, some say Diablo Canyon should stay open for another decade

Diablo Canyon is supposed to start closing in a few years, but a Stanford-MIT report says keeping it open would help California transition to clean energy.

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