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Within half an hour's drive of our house is Diablo Canyon Power Plant,
a nuclear facility that generates about 18,000 gigawatt hours every
year. Need some perspective? According to the Energy Information Administration,
the average American home uses 936 kilowatt hours per year. If my math
and reasoning skills aren't completely screwed up (which is quite
possible even using this tool), that means this plant supplies enough electricity to power more than 2 million homes for an entire year. WHEW!
The
plant, located on 750 remote areas on California's Central Coast,
offers some of the coast's most spectacular views. Employees here are
blessed with a beautiful daily commute, and breathtaking views any time
they can spare to look up from their work. For the majority of my
lifetime, my dad has been one of those employees. Today, he led us on a
tour of the plant.
