Environmental groups are calling on federal regulators to immediately shut down one of two reactors at California's last nuclear power plant.
LOS ANGELES -- Environmental groups called on federal regulators Thursday to immediately shut down one of two reactors at California's last nuclear power plant until tests can be conducted on critical machinery they believe could fail and cause a catastrophe.
"We will not sit idly by while PG&E cuts corners on Unit 1's safety," Hallie Templeton, legal director for Friends of the Earth, said in a statement.The statement from the anti-nuclear groups contended that PG&E"has repeatedly postponed essential metallurgical tests and ultrasound inspections over the past two decades" on the vessel.
Friends of the Earth, a longtime critic of plant safety, was a central player in negotiating the 2016 closing agreement. The filing comes just weeks after a state judge rejected a lawsuit filed by the group that sought to block PG&E — the state's largest utility — from seeking to extend the plant's operating life.
He added that obtaining more testing data on Unit 1 is especially important because its steel has excessive copper and nickel content"that render it more vulnerable to embrittlement."
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