Compliments to Mothers for Peace for getting a report about tsunami hazards at Diablo published—after 11 years of “cover up” (“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission releases a tsunami assessment of Diablo Canyon 11 years later,” Nov. 27). The events at Fukushima could happen at Diablo.
I was arrested at the main gate to this plant in 1978 because, as a responsible biologist, I felt this terrible “waste” should not be produced unless it could be safely stored for 10,000 years. What I do not understand is why is Diablo even permitted to operate at all.
If more roofs were like mine—covered in photovoltaics and solar panels—we wouldn’t even need “the devil.” Is yours?
This article appears in Dec 4-11, 2014.