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The Diablo Canyon Power Plant is a nuclear power plant near Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County, California. Following the permanent shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in 2013, Diablo Canyon is now the only operational nuclear plant in California, as well as the state's largest single power station. It was the subject of ...
Amid coastal bluffs speckled with brush and buckwheat, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant uses this energy to spin two massive copper coils at a blistering 30 revolutions per second.
Diablo Canyon was set to close in 2025 after PG&E chose to decommission the plant rather than invest in expensive environmental and earthquake safety upgrades. But the governor, seeking to avoid ...
The groups advocated for the closure of Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant while the NRC reviewed PG&E’s license renewal application. Hallie Templeton, legal director of Friends of the Earth ...
Officially, the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant has the state’s permission to operate for five additional years — until 2030. Unofficially, it could be even longer.
The Shoreline Fault is a 25 km long vertical strike-slip fault, [3] identified in 2008, which lies approximately three hundred meters from the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California. According to Pacific Gas & Electric, the fault may produce quakes up to 6.5 magnitude. Mandated three-dimensional seismic studies have not been yet ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An environmental group has sued the U.S. Energy Department over its decision to award over $1 billion to help keep California’s last nuclear power plant running beyond a planned closure that was set for 2025. The move opens another battlefront in the fight over the future of Diablo Canyon’s twin reactors.
We are entering uncharted territory. After nearly six years of preparations to shut down the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, a bill nearing a vote in Sacramento has been drafted for the express ...