The two nuclear plants in CA, San Onofre and Diablo Canyon, produce about 4.5
GW together. Both are coastline installations vulnerable to seismic and
tsunami activity. CA total electrical power plant capacity is about 33 GW .
In 2010 t otal used capacity for 100% full operation was
Oranges and Apples maybe? They're different technologies (BWR vs
PWR). It does not appear that any of the current issues at Fukushima
originated with the basic design, but were due to loss of supporting
infrastructure (e.g., loss of grid power to the pumps, the wave washed
out the diesel
And lotsaluck in getting PGE -- the power company -- to pay for the
decomissioning.
-tj
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:11 PM, plissa...@comcast.net wrote:
The two nuclear plants in CA, San Onofre and Diablo Canyon, produce about
4.5 GW together. Both are coastline installations vulnerable to
