> Have you ever lived near a Ppwer Plant?

Yes.

> In the case of a melt down, as San Onofre is both on the Pacific coast line as well as along the San Andreas fault line so it was just a matter of time, we would all die. Some slower than others, but death was the most likely outcome due to radiation exposure as an evacuation plan would fail.

This is disinformation and has absolutely no basis in fact or reality.

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) shut down in 2012 and was replaced (partially) by a natural gas power plant in Carlsbad. There is no possibility of meltdown. Even if there were, the impact would not even approach what you are describing.

> football fields worth of solar farms

Football fields would be tiny in comparison to the immense amount of land that would be required to replace Diablo Canyon with solar panels. Solar Star generates one eleventh the power of Diablo Canyon over the course of a year and occupies almost four times the space. Solar Star produces only about 42% as much energy in December as it does in June, while Diablo Canyon operates consistently pretty much year-round.

A single plant powers 9% of California with near-zero carbon emissions.

I'm not even going to validate your post with a response, you clearly didn't grasp what I was saying and instead to a reactionary stance nor do you have actual factual information; SONGS was only on standby in 2012 after the leak was made public (it continued to be operational for a few days later while they tried to resolve the leak) while they dealt with the legal proceedings in court about how a decommsion would take place and who would be liable for it, and was only shutdown in 2013.

I uprooted my entire Life because of this situation and how badly it was handled by the local Government, Edison, Mitsubishi, NRC etc... I lived in a neighborhood with mainly workers from SONGS! I had conversations with one of the lead engineers (one my neighbors) from Mitsubishi where I tried to get as much information as I could to make my eventual decision to leave.

I was an activist on the front line, I was there and I lived in San Clemente: How are you going to tell me what happened? Because you read something you think you have greater insight on the situation than someone who lived it on a daily basis?

> Football fields would be tiny in comparison to the immense amount of land...

You took what I said out of context, that was in reference to Mars colonization.

Again... this is horrible post and you should be downvoted and be ignored entirely on the matter and perhaps on any other subject if this your approach to argument/reasoning.

> Statistics are only a cursory form of understanding a subject and hardly comprehensive.

And yet your anecdotal evidence is much better at estimating risk than it?

> And yet your anecdotal evidence is much better at estimating risk than it?

Seeing as how my anecdotal situation was a first hand account of the many perils it entails, briefly outling why some of us still have bad PTSD about it, and how that situation ultimately led to the closure of the plant, I'd say: absolutely.

You have a very glib understanding of this situation, and it shows if you still ask such a vapid question.

You have no idea of the amount of corruption that goes on with the NRA at all. Just look how they're handling the wasted material, they're literately burying in casks on site it leaving it in pools and saying 'well, that's good enough' along one of the most active fault lines in N. America right net to the Pacific Ocean!

Edison try to wash its hands of the situation entirely by blaming Mitsubishi who also tried to remove itself from any culpability... and this has gone until recently, like last month. All while nothing got done for nearly 7 years.

And in Japan its worse with the Nuclear village and TEPCO's influence on the Abe cabinet.

You may not know this, but back in 2011 many Japanese women refused to have children after Fukushima, and not just those from Fukushima prefecture (a country with already horrible fertility rates) because of the fallout they saw first hand with the birth defects of the Hibakusha. The amount of deformed babies from WWII is staggering, the amount of displaced people is terrifying, but the fact that they allowed for this technology to be used for commercial applications in a country where Nuclear bombs were used against them in Warfare all while geo-thermal literately covers the entire country is just fucking CRIMINAL.

I still remember 3/11 vividly, as the leak at San Onofre happened not long after and we had to take to protesting against SONGS at personal danger to ourselves--they started to monitor and follow anti-nuclear protestors that later led to mass detainment and interrogation.

I'm sure you can grasp all of that by looking at a spreadsheet on excel.

Oh, I'm aware of the corruption that follows nuclear programs–every effort of that size and expense has it; it's all but inevitable. But I still maintain that "a spreadsheet on excel" is a much more accurate way of ascertaining risk than your personal experience. Mostly because your personal experience doesn't include the people who in coal-related deaths every year.

There's another plant in NY state with no evacuation path. Even the govt. is concerned about that one.