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Diablo Canyon essentially sits atop multiple faults. PG&E think it's safe, but after Fukushima, why risk it? I get your argument, and broadly think we need nuc
by oliwarner 5y ago
Diablo Canyon essentially sits atop multiple faults. PG&E think it's safe, but after Fukushima, why risk it?
I get your argument, and broadly think we need nuclear especially as we drive away from fossil fuels for travel and heating, but there's a time and a place.
- ch4s3 5y agoFukushima wasn't done in by the earthquake, but by the tsunami that followed. I believe they're different reactor types, Fukushima having been a BWR reactor and this one being a PWR reactor. They have different failure modes. Not sure how much that matters.
- aerostable_slug 5y agoDCPP also sits on a tall bluff, and without getting into site details the generators are positioned in a way such that I really don't think anything like a Fukushima event is credible — except perhaps with a tsunami so big that we'd have bodies washing out to sea from California's major coastal cities, the delta levees would have broken and seawater flooded the Central Valley, etc. End Times stuff.