nuclear power plants in California part 2

After doing further research it turns out that Diablo Nuclear power plant in Morro Bay California is the last operational Nuclear power plant which appears to be open Monday through Saturday 9-5 ongoing until 2024 or 2025.

For example, it's about 250 miles from Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant and San Francisco and about 330 miles or so to San Diego but the point is if you had a big enough earthquake no one would be living within 300 miles of the meltdown of Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors so I guess you could kiss goodbye San Francisco and Los Angeles, And Orange County and possibly San Diego too. The problem is we have big earthquakes here and it's not IF it's only When this happens.

What would it take to do this? Likely an earthquake at about 8 or 9 on the richter scale within 100 miles of the nuclear power plant near Morro Bay California.





 Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan and it's meltdowns are an example that happened in 2011 which were caused by an earthquake caused tsunami which caused 3 meltdowns at Fukushima in Japan including one which was reprocessing nuclear weapons grade plutonium then that melted down. So, basically there is nothing to stop the seep of radiation into the ocean from the water table for the next 25,000 to 50,000 years because plutonium's half-life is 25,000 years.

So, short of sending radiated materials into space there is no safe place to put them on earth and never was and likely never will be either.

I experienced the 1971 San Fernando Valley earthquake and I thought it was a nuclear blast at the time and we had been nuked by Russia but it was just an earthquake. But, most people thought they were going to die during that one if they were close enough to the epicenter like I was. The Loma Prieta Quake and the Northridge Quake were pretty scary too if you were there.

You notice the Northridge quake was the most expensive at 13 to 40 billion dollars damage. One of the reasons was that literally every chimney in Northridge came down and had to be replaced after this earthquake because the movements were very sharp and destroyed almost anything made of brick or concrete. I know about this because a friend of mine had to go there and rebuild his mother's chimney himself and take time off of Work in the SF Bay area to do this.

Here's a list of earthquakes over about a 6.1 so you get the general idea of what I'm talking about here in California:


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_California

Earthquakes[edit]

Date	Name	Area	Mag.	MMI	Deaths	Injuries	Total damage / notes
2019-07-05	Ridgecrest	Eastern	7.1 Mw	IX		5
2019-07-04	Ridgecrest	Eastern	6.4 Mw	VIII	1	20		[1]
2014-08-24	South Napa	North Bay	6.0 Mw	VIII	1	~200	$362 m–$1 b
2014-03-28	La Habra	LA Area	5.1 Mw	VI		Few	$10.8 m	[7]
2010-04-04	Baja California	Baja California	7.2 Mw	VII	2–4	100–233	$1.15 b
2010-01-09	Eureka	North Coast	6.5 Mw	VI		35	$21.8–43 m
2008-07-29	Chino Hills	LA Area	5.5 Mw	VI		8	Limited
2003-12-22	San Simeon	Central Coast	6.6 Mw	VIII	2	40	$250–300 m
2000-09-03	Yountville	North Bay	5.0 Mw	VII		41	$10–50 m
1999-10-16	Hector Mine	Eastern	7.1 Mw	VII		4–5	Limited
1994-01-17	Northridge	LA Area	6.7 Mw	IX	57	8,700+	$13–40 b
1992-06-28	Big Bear	Inland Empire	6.5 Mw	VIII		Some	Moderate / triggered
1992-06-28	Landers	Inland Empire	7.3 Mw	IX	3	400+	$92 m
1992-04-26	Cape Mendocino	North Coast	6.6 Mw	VIII			dmge / triggered
1992-04-26	Cape Mendocino	North Coast	6.5 Mw	VIII			dmge / triggered
1992-04-25	Cape Mendocino	North Coast	7.2 Mw	IX		98–356	$48–75 m / tsunami
1992-04-22	Joshua Tree	Inland Empire	6.3 Ms	VII		32	Light–moderate	[7]
1991-06-28	Sierra Madre	LA Area	5.6 Mw	VII	1	100–107	$34–40 m
1990-02-28	Upland	LA Area	5.7 Mw	VII		30	$12.7 m
1989-10-17	Loma Prieta	Santa Cruz Mts	6.9 Mw	IX	63	3,757	$5.6–6 b / tsunami
1989-08-08	Loma Prieta	Santa Cruz Mts	5.4 ML	VII	1		Minor
1987-11-24	Elmore Ranch	Imperial Valley	6.5 Mw	VII			Triggered	[8]
1987-11-23	Superstition Hills	Imperial Valley	6.1 Mw	VI			$3 m	[8]
1987-10-01	Whittier	LA Area	5.9 Mw	VIII	8	200	$213–358 m
1986-07-21	Chalfant Valley	Eastern	6.2 Mw	VI		2	$2.7 m / sequence
1986-07-13	Oceanside	South Coast	5.8 Mw	VI		1	$700 k	[9]
1986-07-08	N. Palm Springs	Inland Empire	6.0 Mw	VII		29–40	$4.5–6 m
1984-04-24	Morgan Hill	South Bay	6.2 Mw	VIII		21–27	$7.5–8 m
1983-05-02	Coalinga	Central Valley	6.2 Mw	VIII		94	$10 m
1981-04-26	Westmorland	Imperial Valley	5.9 Mw	VII			$1–3 m	[10]
1980-11-08	Eureka	North Coast	7.3 Mw	VII		6	$2–2.75 m
1980-05-25	Mammoth Lakes	Eastern	6.2 Mw	VII		9	$1.5 m / swarm	[11]
1980-01-26	Livermore	East Bay	5.4 Mw	VII			Doublet	[12]
1980-01-24	Livermore	East Bay	5.8 Mw	VII			$11.5 m / doublet	[13]
1979-10-15	Imperial Valley	Imperial Valley	6.4 Mw	IX		91	$30 m
1979-08-06	Coyote Lake	South Bay	5.7 Mw	VII		16	$500 k
1978-08-13	Santa Barbara	Central Coast	5.8 Mw	VII		65	$12 m	[14]
1975-08-01	Butte County	Butte County	5.7 ML	VIII		10	$3 m	[7]
1973-02-21	Point Mugu	South Coast	5.8 Mw	VII		Several	$1 m
1971-02-09	San Fernando	LA Area	6.6 Mw	XI	58–65	200–2,000	$505–553 m
1969-10-01	Santa Rosa	North Bay	5.7 Mw	VIII			Doublet
1969-10-01	Santa Rosa	North Bay	5.6 Mw	VII	1		$8.35 m / doublet
1968-04-08	Borrego Mtn	Imperial Valley	6.5 Mw	VII			dmge / rockslides	[15]
1957-03-22	San Francisco	Bay Area	5.7 Mw	VII	1	40	$1 m
1954-12-21	Eureka	North Coast	6.5 ML	VII	1	Several	$2.1 m	[16]
1952-08-22	Kern County	Central Valley	5.8 Mw	VIII	2	Several	$10 m
1952-07-21	Kern County	Central Valley	7.3 Mw	XI	12	Hundreds	$60 m
1948-12-04	Desert Hot Springs	Inland Empire	6.4 Mw	VII		Several	Minor
1941-11-14	Torrance–Gardena	LA Area	5.4 Ms	VIII			$1.1 m	[17]
1941-06-30	Santa Barbara	Central Coast	5.9 Mw	VIII			$100 k	[18]
1940-05-18	El Centro	Imperial Valley	6.9 Mw	X	9	20	$6 m
1933-03-10	Long Beach	South Coast	6.4 Mw	VIII	115–120		$40 m
1932-06-06	Eureka	North Coast	6.4 Mw	VIII	1	3	Severe
1927-11-04	Lompoc	Central Coast	7.3 Mw	VIII			Moderate / tsunami	[19]
1925-06-29	Santa Barbara	Central Coast	6.8 Mw	IX	13		$8 m
1923-01-22	Humboldt County	North Coast	7.2 Ms	VIII			Severe / tsunami	[20]
1920-06-21	Inglewood	LA Area	4.9 ML	VIII			More than $100 k	[21]
1918-04-21	San Jacinto	Inland Empire	6.7 Mw	IX	1	Several	$200 k
1915-06-22	Imperial Valley	Imperial Valley	5.5 Mw	VIII	6		$900 k / doublet	[22]
1906-04-18	San Francisco	Northern–Central	7.9 Mw	XI	700–3,000+		Conflagration / tsunami
1899-12-25	San Jacinto	Inland Empire	6.7 Mw	IX	6		$50 k or more	[23]
1898-03-30	Mare Island	North Bay	5.8–6.4 Mw	VIII–IX			$350 k / moderate
1892-04-21	Vacaville–Winters	Central Valley	6.2 MLa	IX			Doublet
1892-04-19	Vacaville–Winters	North Bay	6.4 MLa	IX	1		$225–250 k / doublet
1892-02-23	Laguna Salada	Baja California	7.1–7.2 Mw	VIII			Moderate
1873-11-23	Crescent City	North Coast	6.7 MLa	VIII			dmge / ground cracks	[24]
1872-03-26	Lone Pine	Eastern	7.4–7.9 Mw	X	27	56	$250 k / limited
1868-10-21	Hayward	Bay Area	6.3–6.7 Mw	IX	30		$350 k / moderate
1865-10-08	Santa Cruz Mts	Santa Cruz Mts	6.3 MLa	VIII			$500 k	[25]
1857-01-09	Fort Tejon	Central–Southern	7.9 Mw	IX	2		Severe
1838-06-??	San Andreas	Bay Area	6.8–7.2 Mw	VIII			Minor
1812-12-21	Ventura	Central Coast	7.1 MLa	VIII	1		Tsunami	[26]
1812-12-08	San Juan Capistrano	South Coast	6.9–7.5	VII–IX	40		Moderate
Stover & Coffman 1993 uses various seismic scales. Mla is a local magnitude that is equivalent to ML (Richter magnitude scale) and is used for events that occurred prior to the instrumental period. It is based on the area of perceptibility (as presented on isoseismal maps). Mw = moment magnitude scale and Ms = surface wave magnitude. The inclusion criteria for adding events are based on WikiProject Earthquakes' notability guideline that was developed for stand alone articles. The principles described are also applicable to lists. In summary, only damaging, injurious, or deadly events should be recorded. dmge = damage, m = million, b = billion

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