This Day in History: 1964-10-30

Nuclear plant abandoned On this day in 1964, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announces it will abandon plans to build a nuclear power plant at Bodega Head, on the Pacific Coast 50 miles north of San Francisco. The natural beauty of the location, combined with the fact that it is located directly atop the seismically active San Andreas fault line, were major points against the project. Undeterred, PG&E began the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant on the same fault line a few years later.