California’s next climate challenge: Replacing its last nuclear power plant
By Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times
Published: May 24, 2021, 6:02am
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Steam is released from reactor No. 1 at Diablo Canyon Power Plant at Avila Beach, Calif., in a May 2000 file image. (Steve Osman/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
The twin reactors along California’s Central Coast were nearing completion, and tens of thousands of people had gathered to protest. It was 1979, just months after a partial nuclear meltdown at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island, and a young Jerry Brown — serving his first stint as California governor — earned a standing ovation when he declared, “No on Diablo Canyon.”