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David Sneed, "Can Diablo Canyon's desal plant help ease SLO County's water crisis?" (2015) https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article39536280.html
Perhaps California should recommision Diablo Canyon Power Plant. Not just that this nuclear power plant would help stabilize the base load of the Californian grid. DCPP only used water from the Pacific Ocean which it desalinated in its own desal plant. This desal plant was licensed to produce 1.5 million gallons a day of which during operation it only used 675,000 gallons. The surplus back then and now could be transported to the utilities or agriculture.
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