Talk:Diablo Canyon Power Plant

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[edit] earthquake question

Has this building actually withstood any significant earthquakes? (22 Dec 2003 @ List of earthquakes for example) Ojw 12:04, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

The web owner at this link gives a second hand report about it. He says "The epicenter of this magnitude 6.5 quake was about 35 miles north of the plant... there was very strong shaking at the plant site, but that the plant handled it well. It was not even necessary to reduce power or take the plant off-line... both units continued to run at full-power without a problem." He then goes on to say that the plant is designed to handle a quake twenty times stronger than that one. HGB 07:49, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] article move

I see this article has been moved from Diablo Canyon Power Plant to Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. While DCPP *is* a nuclear plant, the actual name of the plant is "Diablo Canyon Power Plant". See for this for example. HGB 01:10, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question about units

Diablo Canyon is designed to withstand an earthquake of .75 gs from four faults, including the nearby San Andreas and Hosgri faults.

What is gs? I've not heard of such a scale. I did find an article in Time, saying it was engineered for a Richter 6.75. I'll change it to that unless there's more info on gs. --skew-t 03:20, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, geeze, yes, go for it, change it to familiar units and Wiki-link the units. Good catch. KP Botany 03:33, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
I would suspect that the original sentence should have read: Diablo Canyon is designed to withstand earthquake-induced acceleration of .75 g (7.355 ms-2) from four faults, .... Acceleration at the site is more important than the richter magnitude of an earthquake which may be far away. Αργυριου (talk) 17:01, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
That would be fine if it were the case, but then wikilink it to an in-depth explanation and include enough notation in the text that it can be understood. KP Botany 03:53, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] simpsons/duke nukem references

this plant was referred to in the episode of the simpsons where lisa works with homer at the plant. He has a light up board of all the nuclear power plants in the us. the light for diablo canyon 1 goes out and he says something along the lines of "Diablo canyon 1, why can't you be more like diablo canyon number 2" haha i thought it was funny.

Also in the game Duke Nukem Forever, a lot of the gameplay takes place in diablo canyon after its been invaded by aliens. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.195.36.133 (talk) 20:04, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Making Uranium Angry Hot

The kelp intrusion numbers are wrong. Also, consider updating the page with info about the new SGs. Double also, consider updating the page with dry cask info. What happened to Charlie crew? Mrshaba (talk) 16:12, 21 May 2008 (UTC)