{"id":2793,"date":"2026-10-02T10:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2026-10-02T10:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:47:01","slug":"gene-nelson-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/2026\/10\/02\/gene-nelson-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Nelson &#8217;73"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I continue in my advocacy for extended operations of California&#8217;s only nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP). During the past decade, I&#8217;ve invested about 30,000 hours on this important project. I will be 75 in January. In 2013, I helped to found the independent nonprofit, Californians for Green Nuclear Power, Inc. (CGNP.) My work was featured in one chapter in Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow (2025) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Atomic-Dreams-Nuclear-Evangelists-Future\/dp\/1643753150\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Atomic-Dreams-Nuclear-Evangelists-Future\/dp\/1643753150<\/a> The chapter that focuses on my advocacy is titled, &#8220;The Guy in the Headband.&#8221; On 2 April 2026, the NRC granted DCPP&#8217;s owners a license extension to 2045. CGNP was unable to get their draft DCPP extension language adopted by the California legislature during 2026. We&#8217;re currently working on the 2027 language. CGNP&#8217;s GreenNUKE Substack at <a href=\"https:\/\/greennuke.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/greennuke.substack.com\/<\/a> with over 50 of my technical articles shows the relevance of my HMC coursework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue in my advocacy for extended operations of California&#8217;s only nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP). During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":2794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,82],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-36","category-careers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}