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Bodega Bay Nuclear Power Plant

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The Bodega Bay Nuclear Power Plant was a proposed Northern California nuclear power facility that was stopped by local activism in the 1960s and never built. [1]

30 relations: Activism, Allens Creek Nuclear Power Plant, Anti-nuclear movement in California, Anti-nuclear movement in the United States, Bodega Bay, California, Bodega Head, Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978, Energy in California, Iodine-131, List of articles associated with nuclear issues in California, List of cancelled nuclear reactors in the United States, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Malibu, California, North American Plate, Northern California, Nuclear power in the United States, Nuclear power plant, Nuclear weapons testing, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Pacific Plate, Rose Gaffney, San Andreas Fault, San Francisco, Sierra Club, Stanislaus Nuclear Power Plant, Stewart Udall, Strontium-90, Sundesert Nuclear Power Plant, Thomas Wellock, United States Atomic Energy Commission.

Activism

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.

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Allens Creek Nuclear Power Plant

The Allens Creek Nuclear Power Plant was a proposed nuclear power plant to be located at Wallis, Texas, less than 50 miles from the western edge of Houston.

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Anti-nuclear movement in California

The 1970s proved to be a pivotal period for the anti-nuclear movement in California.

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Anti-nuclear movement in the United States

The anti-nuclear movement in the United States consists of more than 80 anti-nuclear groups that oppose nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and/or uranium mining.

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Bodega Bay, California

Bodega Bay is a town and census-designated place (CDP) in Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Bodega Head

Bodega Head is a small promontory on the Pacific coast of northern California in the United States.

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Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978

Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978 is the first detailed history of the anti-nuclear movement in the United States, written by Thomas Wellock.

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Energy in California

California's peak electricity demand occurred on July 24, 2006, at 2:44 pm, with 50,270 megawatts.

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Iodine-131

Iodine-131 (131I) is an important radioisotope of iodine discovered by Glenn Seaborg and John Livingood in 1938 at the University of California, Berkeley.

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List of articles associated with nuclear issues in California

This is a list of Wikipedia articles that are relevant to the topic of nuclear power and nuclear weapons history in the US state of California.

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List of cancelled nuclear reactors in the United States

This is a list of cancelled nuclear reactors in the United States.

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States, serving over four million residents.

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Malibu, California

Malibu is a beach city in western Los Angeles County, California, situated about west of Downtown Los Angeles.

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North American Plate

The North American Plate is a tectonic plate covering most of North America, Greenland, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.

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Northern California

Northern California (colloquially known as NorCal or "The Northstate" for the northern interior counties north of Sacramento to the Oregon stateline) is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Nuclear power in the United States

Nuclear power in the United States is provided by 99 commercial reactors with a net capacity of 100,350 megawatts (MW), 65 pressurized water reactors and 34 boiling water reactors.

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Nuclear power plant

A nuclear power plant or nuclear power station is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.

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Nuclear weapons testing

Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability of nuclear weapons.

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Pacific Gas and Electric Company

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an investor-owned utility (IOU) with publicly traded stock that is headquartered in the Pacific Gas & Electric Building in San Francisco.

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Pacific Plate

The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean.

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Rose Gaffney

Rose Gaffney (1895–1979) was an environmental activist known for fighting the construction of the Bodega Bay Nuclear Power Plant in Sonoma County, California.

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San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly through California.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States.

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Stanislaus Nuclear Power Plant

Stanislaus Nuclear Power Plant was proposed by Pacific Gas & Electric in 1971 as two GE 1,200 MW units, but the project was canceled in 1979.

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Stewart Udall

Stewart Lee Udall (January 31, 1920 – March 20, 2010) was an American politician and later, a federal government official.

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Strontium-90

Strontium-90 is a radioactive isotope of strontium produced by nuclear fission, with a half-life of 28.8 years.

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Sundesert Nuclear Power Plant

The Sundesert Nuclear Power Plant was a proposed California nuclear power station, formally submitted in 1976.

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Thomas Wellock

Thomas Wellock (born 1959) is the historian for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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United States Atomic Energy Commission

The United States Atomic Energy Commission, commonly known as the AEC, was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodega_Bay_Nuclear_Power_Plant

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