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Friends of the Earth Petitions NRC to Include Alarming New Seismic Data in Considering Diablo Canyon License Renewal

Request follows dramatic findings that nuclear reactors are surrounded by stronger and inter-connected earthquake faults

WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—October 13, 2014. Friends of the Earth has filed a petition to intervene in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission proceeding that would allow  Pacific Gas & Electric’s controversial Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors to run for an additional twenty years.

The new seismic data released in September by the utility reveals that the 1960s-era Diablo Canyon reactors are surrounded by…

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