Word: rinconada
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 6.75 on the Richter scale.* The concrete foundations are 14 ft. thick, for example, and a cross section of the mammoth dome over each reactor would show 3½ ft. of concrete, liberally laced...
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