It's not possible to build ANYTHING along a plate boundary and not have active faults nearby..... the Luddite response to this premise is to oppose ALL plants period like the enviros do..... the rational and logical response is to design plants to deal with shaking effectively. Enviros respond to nuclear energy as irrationally and unscientifically-minded as New World Creationists do to the concept that stuff has been around longer than 6,000 years.
Bad Kim
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Patricia J Akers <delachenaie1@yahoo.com> wrote:
It has been known since 1965 that Diablo Canyon was either a fault, or had faults near by. This fact was one of the major reasons Diablo Canyon was opposed by so many environmental groups OTHER than the Sierra Club whose leadership supported it at first without going to the site to determine suitability. Protesters tried to stop the building on the basis that geologists felt that there was a inferred fault zone not yet revealed by research, its importance to the Chumash and the pristine beauty of the site. In the hearings on the plant, earthquakes were excluded from comment. Construction went forward at the same time further research confirmed the present of a complex fault zone. It was claimed by PG&E that the plant could withstand ANY earthquake that the fault zone could generate. Diablo Canyon was railroaded into existence even with the FULL knowledge of an active fault zone beneath it.Patricia
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