Energy

The Diablo Canyon control room turned this mom into a nuclear advocate

0


Heather Hoff was working in the control room of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant near in San Luis Obispo County, Calif., when an earthquake caused a tsunami that shut off the power supply cooling three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. Three nuclear reactor cores at Fukushima melted down. 

“It was super scary,” Hoff told CNBC in a video interview. “It’s my worst nightmare as an operator — to be there and think about these other operators just across the ocean from us. They don’t know what’s going on with their plant. They have no power. They don’t know if people are hurt.”

In the first days after the accident, “what I was hearing on TV in the media…



Source cnbc.com

0 0 votes
Article Rating

ADP jobs report May 2022:

Previous article

‘Yellowstone’ boom pits lifetime Montana residents against wealthy newcomers

Next article

You may also like

Subscribe
Notify of
guest
0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

More in Energy