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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 ...
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 ...
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Still, some consumer advocacy groups are calling on legislators like state Sen. John Laird, who represents the Central Coast, to reexamine whether there really is a need to keep Diablo Canyon open ...
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 Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo County is the largest power station in California with a nameplate capacity of 2,256 MW and an annual generation of 18,214 GWh in 2018. [6] The largest under construction is the Westlands Solar Park in Kings County, which will generate 2,000 MW when completed in 2025. [7] [8]
In June 2012 S. David Freeman, the former head of the Southern California Public Power Authority and "a longtime anti-nuclear voice", [30] described San Onofre and Diablo Canyon as "disasters waiting to happen: aging, unreliable reactors sitting near earthquake fault zones on the fragile Pacific Coast, with millions of Californians living ...
The vote came a little more than a month after PG&E filed a license renewal application with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.