Category: Diablo Canyon
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PG&E to close Diablo Canyon, California’s last nuclear power plant
PG&E announced that it will phase out by 2025 Diablo Canyon, the last operational nuclear power plant in California, and replace its power with renewables and efficiency. As part of...
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Sandy Silver: Quake danger at Diablo Canyon
Sandy Silver discusses the danger an earthquake poses to the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. Article link here
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CBG’s Annual News Letter! 2015 Edition
In this edition we discuss the slow moving progress to clean up the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. We also look at other big nuclear stories of 2015, including revelations that...
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Feds: Diablo nuke plant could face stronger-than-expected quakes
The SF Chronicle reports here.
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Feds Probe PG&E report on California Nuclear Plant Safety
SF Chron reports here. Daniel Hirsch, a lecturer on nuclear policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a critic of the nuclear power industry, called the findings “deeply...
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Study: Earthquake could exceed nuclear power plant design
Bakersfield Now reports. Daniel Hirsch, a lecturer on nuclear policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a critic of the nuclear power industry, called the findings “deeply troubling.”...
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PG&E overlooked key seismic test at Diablo Canyon nuclear plant
In a bombshell report, the San Francisco Chronicle investigates an allegation that PG&E updated equipment at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, located in San Luis Obispo County, California, without...
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Dan Hirsch Testifies Before Senate Environment Committee on Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant
Read an article about the testimony here. Read Dan Hirsch’s Senate testimony here. Read Sam Blakeslee’s testimony here.
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NRC Official Calls for Shutdown of Diablo Canyon
New Earthquake Fault More Capable Than Reactor Was Designed to Withstand Read AP article here Read formerly secret NRC inspector’s report here
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Legal Case Filed to Shut Diablo Canyon
Read news article here and the legal brief here.