Saturday, March 12, 2011

Living on Fault Lines

Similar to Japan, California lives on Fault lines too. Though earthquakes are much more common in Japan, they happen a lot in California too. All the Californians that demonstrated against Nuclear power and who also voted against any more nuclear power plants must all be breathing a sign of relief for California while looking at the potential or actual meltdowns in Japan at Fukushima Nuclear power plant now. The only remaining functioning Nuclear power plant is the San Onofre Nuclear power plant that supplies the Marine base nearby here in California. It is the only functional nuclear power plant still online. If a meltdown ever occured there it would render uninhabitable land from Laguna Beach on down to San Diego likely. But since the pipes were installed backwards in the Diablo Canyon facility it was never opened. I think it very unlikely that Californians will ever allow any new nuclear power plants to be built in California after watching this Earthquake caused disaster now unfolding at Fukushima Nuclear power plant right now in Japan.

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