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...Diablo Canyon plant is being built about 12 miles from San Luis Obispo by Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the nation's second largest investor-owned electric utility (1975 revenues: $2.2 billion). It consists of two giant reactors that will produce 2.2 million kilowatts of electricity. One reactor is nearly ready to go into operation; the other will be finished in August 1977. When construction started in 1968, PG&E knew all about the San Andreas fault, 45 miles inland, and the Rinconada fault, some 20 miles away. So its engineers designed the plant to survive a quake registering...
...however, Shell Oil Co. geologists prospecting offshore found an underwater fault that runs only 2½ miles west of Diablo Canyon. At first, this Hosgri fault was thought to be inactive. But studies sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey revealed that it was probably responsible for a 1927 quake estimated at 7.25 on the Richter scale. PG&E experts dispute that conclusion, insisting that a more distant fault caused the quake. If they are right-a crucial if-the plant is designed with a sufficient margin of safety to survive any probable jolt in the area...
...Candidate, Actor Robert Redford starred as an idealistic aspirant to the U.S. Senate. In real life, his political achievements can be measured on a more modest scale. Redford, a resident of Provo Canyon, Utah (pop. 124), since 1963 and one of the owners of the nearby Sundance ski resort, last week was appointed chairman of the Provo Canyon Sewer District Committee. His duties: to help local residents win state aid for a more extensive sewage system. "I'm honored," said the actor, "but I'm having a hard time picking a cabinet...
...feels very humble and insignificant when looking at the Grand Canyon...
...other vacationers the trip would have been routine. But when Josephine Berman, 43, and her husband toured the Grand Canyon, stopped at Las Vegas and then visited San Francisco last summer, it was something of a medical miracle. For eleven years the pretty Brook lyn housewife has suffered from chronic kidney disease. Like 24,000 other similarly afflicted Americans, she could never go far from the massive dialysis machines that purge her blood of the toxic wastes her kidneys are no longer able to remove. Yet during her 16-day trip, she shunned kidney centers entirely. Her unexpected freedom...