Diablo Canyon power plant, photographed from above. (Creative Commons)

Diablo Canyon, located half-way between Los Angeles and San Francisco, has long-been depicted as a nuclear diaster in waiting.

Michael Peck, who worked for five years as Diablo Canyon's lead on-site inspector, says the plant should be shut down until inspectors can determine if the facility's twin reactors can withstand shaking from the nearby earthquake faults. 

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