Diablo Canon (Nuclear Plant) Defers Millions in Maintenance

In 2016, Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates Inc was retained by Mothers For Peace in San Luis Obispo to analyze documents presented by PG&E regarding the condition of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant and to write a report for the California Public Utilities Control (CPUC) assessing its current condition for continued operation. Fairewinds identified numerous examples of dangerously deferred maintenance for critical mechanical portions of the Diablo Canyon atomic power plant that were submitted in Mr. Gundersen’s testimony to the CPUC on January 27th, 2017. As Fairewinds stated in its 2017 CPUC testimony,

“The scientific and engineering evidence demonstrates that it is imperative that both PG&E atomic reactors are shut down in 2019… Mechanical failure is likely and there remains a finite possibility of a serious mechanical failure with a significant release of radiation from the Diablo Canyon atomic power reactors as they age further.”

Source: www.fairewinds.org