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Earthquake risks and rising costs: The price of operating California's last nuclear plant
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Under two gargantuan domes of thick concrete and steel that rise along California’s rugged Central Coast, subatomic particles slam into uranium, triggering one of the most energetic reactions on Earth. Amid coastal bluffs speckled with …