Word: diablos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Higher Rates. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission must now decide whether to grant the plant an operating license. For safety's sake, it can delay the license until the building is strengthened further. That might help soothe widespread public fears about the safety of not only the Diablo Canyon plant itself-which critics are now attacking-but also about nuclear energy in general. This is an especially important consideration in California, where citizens will vote in June on a proposal that in effect would block more atomic power plants in the state. On the other hand...
...ahead. In 1969 it paid stock worth nearly $1 billion in order to acquire Scientific Data Systems, a maker of small and medium computers, which has proceeded to lose $100 million under Xerox's ownership. Undaunted, Xerox five months ago paid another $29 million in stock to buy Diablo Systems, a computer disc-drive manufacturer. Xerox has won barely 1% of the world market for U.S. computers, compared with IBM's two-thirds, and the computer operation will gobble up $26 million in Xerox research and development funds this year alone...
Soledad is a part of the California that is not California, that is, it is a place not of movie stars or cablecars, but of pears and prunes, pear-pickers and prune-pickers. Walled in by the Diablo and Santa Lucia ranges, it is burned and dusty throughout the summer and rainy in winter. Soledad is not the kind of place to which one would go to leave one's heart...