Initiative Would Shutter California Nuclear Plants For Decades While Feds Ponder Waste

[WillyT]

12. Good !!!

I used to live a couple of miles from Rancho Seco...

On 20 March 1978 a failure of power supply for the plant's non-nuclear instrumentation system led to steam generator dryout. (ref NRC LER 312/78-001). In an ongoing study of "precursors" that could lead to a nuclear disaster if additional failures were to have occurred,[1] in 2005 the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission concluded that this event at Rancho Seco was the third most serious safety-related occurrence in the United States[2] (Behind the Three Mile Island accident and the cable tray fire at Browns Ferry).

And though I lived in the area... I had NO IDEA until recently.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco_Nuclear_Generating_Station