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The San Onofre nuclear power plant, seen here in north San Diego County, California on March 1, 2011.
Friday, Sep. 02, 2011

Open quoteIsn't ... the West Coast likely to get hit with some huge earthquake in the next 30 years or so? Yet we relicense their plants.Close quote

  • BRIAN SHERON,
  • head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, in an email exchange earlier this year, which demonstrated that scientists are privately worried that U.S. nuclear plants need stronger safeguards against earthquakes
Photo: Lenny Ignelz, File / AP | Source: AP