California’s last nuclear power plant will close by 2025
JUN 22, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029914
NPR : The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant is the last nuclear plant still operating in California. On 21 June Pacific Gas and Electric announced that it would close the plant by 2025 and replace it with renewable energy sources. Diablo Canyon provides energy to 1.7 million homes. Local residents and environmental groups have continually raised safety concerns because the plant and its two nuclear reactors are close to active fault lines. Protests intensified following the earthquake and tsunami that damaged Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011.
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