Study: Earthquake could exceed nuclear power plant design

Bakersfield Now reports.

Daniel Hirsch, a lecturer on nuclear policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a critic of the nuclear power industry, called the findings \”deeply troubling.\”

\”As Fukushima demonstrated, earthquakes larger than a reactor was built to withstand can have devastating consequences. PG&E\’s nonchalant response, that everything is OK anyway, suggests that they just don\’t get it,\” Hirsch said.

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