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Pacific Gas & Electric Co. officials announced today that they have discovered a new earthquake fault offshore of Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.
The presence of the fault was discovered using new computer programming that allows geologists to better map the epicenters of the many small magnitude earthquakes in the area, said Lloyd Cluff, head of PG&E’s earthquake risk management program, in a summary sent to the California Energy Commission earlier this week.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/breaking_news/story/535834.htmlThe new fault is thought to be smaller than the other fault off the plant’s coastline, the Hosgri fault, but it is closer to shore. The new fault is less than a mile offshore while the Hosgri fault is about three miles offshore.
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The scary thing about all these faults is, if any nuclear catastrophe were to happen – the plant is limited to only $10.8 billion of damage, but the actual damage could run into the hundreds of billions of dollars. And guess where the balance comes from? You guessed it! – the tax payer.