interesting because...
after years and years and years of refusing to build any new large significant power plants (or any other infrastructure such as freeways, roads, airports, water supply, etc.)
California is now having “brown out days”... cannot supply enough power for homes
so a 10 or 12 percent cut in the state’s power supply (closing Diablo) will do WHAT to help California, specifically?
encourage folks to go solar, more wind power, less birdpoop..
we are headed back to the dark ages.. candles are at the ready. ;-]
Years ago I read about the geological “problems” with Diablo Canyon (in TIME magazine I think) - probably the mid or late 1970’s. After reading the article in High School I thought “there should be some way to figure out where the faults are?”, and got interested in that specialized field.
Went to college and got my degree, worked and moved a few times in my field across the country. Ended up helping out an older guy that was one of the “grandfathers” of the technology.
Going through all the stuff in his basement and came across a slide showing “Cross-section of Faults and Bedding at Proposed Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant”!
It was pretty cool - sort of an affirmation that I had made the right career choice. (Although it is a pretty small community!) So of course, Time Magazine had it wrong, studies HAD been done and everything was fine. But headlines that say “Nuclear Plant built near Fault Line” sells better. (Oh - and one of the first things I learned in college - pretty much everywhere in California there are faults.)
Sad to hear they are shutting it down over some stupid water permit.