Diablo Canyon Power Plant

Category: Nuclear power plant

Address: Diablo Canyon Rd, Avila Beach, CA 93424, USA

Phone: +18055465280

Opening hours

Sunday: Open 24 hours

Monday: Open 24 hours

Tuesday: Open 24 hours

Wednesday: Open 24 hours

Thursday: Open 24 hours

Friday: Open 24 hours

Saturday: Open 24 hours

Reviews

Sean Eyler

Oct 5, 2022

Thankfully CA still has 2 operating nuclear power plants. Every time Jerry Brown killed a nuclear power plant plan, a gas/coal plant was built instead. If all those nuclear power plants had been built instead, CA would have almost 100% carbon free energy. We need more clean energy facilities like this.

Guy Graff

Sep 17, 2022

Incredible use of carbon free energy beautiful surroundings land managed perfectly.

Daniel L.

Sep 6, 2022

Thanks for keeping the lights on.

Basic Legend

Sep 1, 2022

Do they give tours? It would be awesome to check it out.

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Questions & Answers

Apparently there are tours, but what do they entail? Sounds like the visitors center, a look at the simulator, a view of the water intake, and a quick drive past the spent fuel casks. Is it as lame as it sounds?

Andrew Baker | Oct 11, 2021
Tammy Cutts | Oct 11, 2021

I don't think it's lame, but after 15 years working there I still love walking onto the turbine deck, down to intake, or over to the outfall. I guess it depends on how much you enjoy technical tours. They aren't going to allow you into the control room or containment, or let you wander around where you can trip the plant or change plant configuration if that's what you are expecting.

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What is the biggest reason for closing the plant for good?

Stephen Verchinski | Oct 11, 2021
Kurt Hoffman | Oct 11, 2021

Politics. Money. The wind and solar lobby own Newsome.

Have you had a nuclear accident?

Juan Carlos Rodriguez Amaya | Oct 12, 2019
Calum Kyle | Oct 12, 2019

No, there has never been a nuclear accident here and due to safety precautions there never will be.

When is Diablo Canyon Power Plant scheduled to close?

Ruth Wallace | Oct 12, 2018
Buddy Anderson | Oct 11, 2021

Probably never as it’s the last one in California, and the highest producer of electricity in California if they shut it down we would have a huge drop in power production

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The syntax regarding the shift schedule mentioned in the job posting for nuclear operators is somewhat problematic. Can anyone clearly explain how their rotating shift schedule works?

Chris Burnham | Oct 4, 2022
howard darington | Oct 4, 2022

We work a 5 week cycle. We have 5 crews on shift that following the cycle with each crew on a different week of the cycle. Day shifts are 7 am to 7pm, night shifts are 7pm to 7 am. Training shifts are 7 am to 5 pm. The work week is a Monday thru Sunday work week. The 5 week cycle starts with 4 day shifts (Monday thru Thursday) followed by 3 days off, followed by 3 night shifts (Monday thru Wednesday), followed by 7 day off, followed by 4 night shifts (Thursday thru Sunday), then 4 days off, followed by 3 day shifts, then 1 day off, followed by 4 10 hour training shifts (Tuesday thru Friday), 2 days off and the cycle starts over.

Where can I schedule a tour of the plant?

Ma B | Sep 20, 2022
Guy Graff | Sep 20, 2022

please contact us at [email protected] or call 805-546-5280

I have always traveled to the Central Coast and seasonally live in Cayucos. Are there ever tours of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant?

Randall Nunnelly | Oct 11, 2020
Ricardo Gonzalez | Oct 11, 2020

No

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