We focus in the GREEP Zoom #155 on the in-your-face crisis at California’s Diablo Canyon nuke reactors.
While the 39-year-old Unit One is shut for refueling, a growing public movement demands the obvious—test this crumbling old nuke for embrittlement and much more BEFORE it’s allowed to re-open.
After four decades of blasting heat, pressure and radiation, Diablo’s Reactor Pressure Vessels are fried to the point of shattering like glass should they be flooded with coolant water in an emergency.
In other words….if the “brakes” are applied at uninsured Diablo during a major accident, the whole place will blow up.
Steam, Hydrogen and fission explosions will blast apocalyptic radioactive cloud into the steady breezing blowing south to Los Angeles.
Then it’ll go west into the Central Valley, then north to the Bay Area….and all across the continental United States.
LINDA SEELEY of the Mothers for Peace explains how her long-lived, incredibly persistent group is fighting to keep Diablo shut in the court system, regulatory agency and Public Utilities Commission.