The thing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s re-licensing the Diablo nuclear plant is they don’t know whether it would survive an earthquake from the active thrust fault directly underneath it. This clip is from last week’s meeting of the Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee.

I stand with Ukraine.

I looked out my window and what did I see? A tree looking west and seemingly pondering. What, I can only guess.

Will tech companies drop their mad quest for nuclear power to run their AI data centers now that China has shown with DeepSeek it can be done with far less energy?