Diablo Canyon Power Plant
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The Diablo Canyon Power Plant is a nuclear power plant near Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County, California. Following the permanent shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in 2013, Di
Diablo Canyon Power Plant
Diablo Canyon Power Plant, 2008. The light beige domes are the containment structures for Unit 1 and 2 reactors. The reddish-brown building is the turbine building where electricity is generated and sent to the grid. To the left is the Administration Building (black and white stripes).
Pacific Gas & Electric Company site at Diablo Canyon: a view to the north shows the outfall conduit for the cooling water. The intake conduits are immediately underneath the worker standing in the middle foreground, circa 1970
Construction at Diablo Canyon: The circular structure rising in the center of the photograph is the reactor containment, circa 1970
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an American investor-owned utility. The company is headquartered at Kaiser Center, in Oakland, California. PG&E provides natural gas and electricity to 5.2 million
Diablo Canyon Power Plant
…thousand civil disobedience arrests in a two-week period in 1981. The plant has two Westinghouse-designed 4-loop pressurized water reactors operated by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Together, the twin 1100 MWe reactors produce about 18,000 GW·h of electricity annually (8.6% of total California generation and 23% of carbon-free…
Pacific Gas and Electric Company plant in Sacramento, 1912
PG&E General Office Building in San Francisco
Gateway Generating Station, a combined-cycle gas-fired power station in Antioch, California that began operating in 2009
View of the San Bruno fire on September 9, 2010, at 11:31 pm PDT