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California's last nuclear plant to close amid earthquake concerns

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California’s last nuclear power plant will close by 2025 under an accord announced Tuesday, ending three decades of safety debates that helped fuel the national anti-nuclear power movement.

The state’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Co (PG&E), and environmental groups reached an agreement to replace production at Diablo Canyon nuclear plant with solar power and other energy sources that do not produce climate-changing greenhouse gases.

The facility, which sits along a bluff on California’s central coast, supplies 9% of the state’s power.

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Hazards NBC - Nuclear, Biological, Chemical
Themes Risk identification and assessment Critical infrastructure
Country and region United States of America
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