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by Lammy
2047 days ago
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> provide power to everyone all the time I just wish it could be from a less environmentally-destructive source than natural gas. Sonoma County was actually going to be the site of the first commercially-viable nuclear generating station in the entire USA, at PG&E's Atomic Park on Bodega Head, but that never happened for now probably obvious environmental reasons. But now I have to pay an average of $0.262/kWh for natural-gas-driven PG&E electricity, and the Sierra Club who stopped Bodega Head have taken funding from the gas companies[0], so I'm left rather unsure what to think and what to advocate for :/ https://science.time.com/2012/02/02/exclusive-how-the-sierra... |
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I think you mean tectonic reasons. Bodega Head is on the San Andreas Fault, not far from the epicenter of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9. Wikipedia has a graphic of the San Andreas fault showing a %21 chance of rupture before 2032: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault#/media/File:...
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodega_Head:
"During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the promontory shifted approximately 15 ft (4.6 m)".
I'm surprised this was ever considered for a nuclear generation facility.