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Just 100 year old insulators that crapped out, or lines with trees impinging. Much of CA is really rural and hasn’t seen line improvement or augmentation (IMO) in ages. PG&E has been found criminally negligent, and on that basis, I would argue that they have no business running nuclear plants, let alone a lemonade stand.

There are a lot of simple things to do. Just as solar farms are out in the desert, one might site nuclear plants more than 10 feet from a major earthquake fault, and find a way to finance them that doesn’t encourage nickel and dime-ing safety.

I don’t have the numbers. Just throwing out some factoids.

Even if your arguments are completely accepted, people in the industry and government will find a way to f it up.

Technology is as good or bad as the people running it. The little fudge factor left out of calculations.