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| So I'm here with Lucien, born and raised here in Sea Canyon. | |
| It's just a stone's throw from Morro Bay, where you can see the smokestacks of the nuclear power plant. | |
| And nestled just right over here is Diablo Canyon, where they have the nuclear core reactors. | |
| So tell me, how do you feel about being right here? | |
| Well, I've never, I mean, we've never had any issues in my life, but I'm not sure that I really particularly care about being so close to nuclear power. | |
| But they say everything's good and nothing's gonna happen, so what's to worry, right? | |
| Right. | |
| Well, they also thought Fukushima was a really well-built facility. | |
| Does it concern you at all that experts say that this particular facility might not be able to withstand the big one? | |
| Yeah, I don't know. | |
| I feel bad for Fukushima. | |
| That's the last thing I'd want here. | |
| No idea, though. | |
| I mean, yeah, I don't know. | |
| I've seen it as a kid. | |
| It seems like they built it solid. | |
| You know, they say it could withstand a 747, but earthquakes are earthquakes, and I don't know. | |
| Hopefully, we just won't ever have to worry about it. | |
| And all around us are apple orchards, farms. | |
| I mean, people here really live off the land, you know, children of nature. | |
| It's such a gorgeous place. | |
| Why do you think that they would choose such a beautiful mountain for their nuclear plant? | |
| Well, I don't know. | |
| If you drive the coast and you go look at that facility, it's a pretty nice seven-mile drive every day along the coastline. | |
| I mean, they have some of the prettiest country along this central coast. | |
| But it must have been water, maybe. | |
| Water for the reactors. | |
| I have no idea why you'd pick such a nice place, you know. | |
| But I guess all coastlands, nice land. | |
| What would it do to this community if there was a California Fukushima? | |
| I'm not sure what the radius would be, but I don't think you'd want to be here. | |
| If you survived, I don't think you'd want to be here. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I mean, which way do the smoke plumes are coming this way? | |
| Well, yeah, just depending on the weather and the day. | |
| But I think we're only, we're probably no more than five miles away, so four miles away, maybe, as a crow flies three. | |
| I'm sure radiation has a bigger radius than that. | |
| Yeah, absolutely. | |
| Well, you said you've been out there, been able to see with fishing. | |
| Have you experienced anything? | |
| We've heard a lot about starfish melting out here and things. | |
| People are thinking that the Fukushima radiation is kind of making its way around here. | |
| Have you seen anything like that? | |
| What do you see when you're out there on the boat? | |
| It looks the same to me. | |
| I saw some whales the other day. | |
| I don't notice a difference. | |
| I mean, the lingcod are... | |
| Blue, but I think that's because they eat squid. | |
| Other than that, you don't notice a difference. | |
| You just see the silhouette of the power plant. | |
| I haven't seen any dramatic changes, but I'm not an ecologist or I'm not out there studying it. | |
| I'm just pulling up wood bites. | |
| Does it ever frighten you to go swimming out there or to eat the fish that you catch? | |
| Just the great whites. | |
| We get a great white from time to time, but no, nothing other than that. | |
| Well, you do actually live in the happiest, what they call this, the happiest place on earth. | |
| So it is kind of hard to let something like that kind of tear you, take you down. | |
| This is where you were born and raised. | |
| You said your family actually protested the facility when they were first thinking about bringing it in. | |
| How do they feel about this? | |
| I mean, after 30 some odd years, I don't think they talk about it. | |
| I think it's the nature of the beast. | |
| You know, there's nothing, once something like that's in effect, they're not going to. | |
| I mean, it's obviously making them more money than it would be to shut it down, you know, and I'm sure they do their calculations, but yeah, I don't know. | |
| I heard rumors it was supposed to be closed within another 20 some odd years, and that makes me happy because it gives me hope for my future generations out here, you know, being raised and not having to be around it. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I'd like to think it's no worse than a microwave. | |
| Do you microwave your food? | |
| No. | |
| I try not to, but I'd like to think living by it is nothing worse than having a microwave in your house all the time. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Well, we can hope. | |
| Well, thank you. | |
| Yeah, absolutely. | |
| You guys have a good trip. | |
| I don't microwave my food either, that's why I asked. |
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