PG&E will shut off power for nearly 800,000 customers starting Wednesday

[Dartz]

Well youi can just build the damn thing toi withstand an Earthquake. That said I don't know anything about Californian geology beyond the fact that it shakes a lot. But they can build them in Japan without issue. Fukushima happened because someone thought the basement was the best place for an emergency generator at a coastal power station that was in a Tsunami risk area. Another power station, much closer to the epicentre, and subject to much higher waves - survived and kept operating, even providing enouigh power to be used as a shelter for locals.

There's also the simple reality that - when lives are counted - it may be worth accepting the risk of a Chernobyl by building simpler, cheaper, less reliable reactors, compared to the costs of climate change.

Radiation is just a damned scary boogeyman.