A recent publication has been circulating among California legislators and agency officials, cited as an “MIT Study” offering economic justification for extending Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant’s operations through 2045. But a closer look reveals something far less credible: a research commentary authored by a single MIT lecturer with deep financial ties to the nuclear industry, built on manipulated data and assumptions that ignore how California’s energy market actually works.
CACE Project Director, John Smigelski breaks down what the Parsons Commentary gets wrong, and what questions decision-makers should actually be asking before committing ratepayers to another 15 years of nuclear subsidies.