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Opposition swells to the Bodega Bay plant
Opposition swells to the Bodega Bay plant from the public, press and elected officials in the first anti-nuclear power campaign in the U.S. and what historians consider the birth of California's modern environmental movement. -
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announces plans
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announces plans to build the nation's first "commercially viable" nuclear power plant near Bodega Bay, a fishing village on the Pacific coast 50 miles north of San Francisco. -
PG&E stops construction on the plant.
After five years of grassroots organizing, protests, editorials, lawsuits and scientific studies, capped by the discovery that a branch of the San Andreas Fault runs through the site – PG&E stops construction on the plant.