Pacific Gas and Electric Co. replaced $842 million of equipment at the heart of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant without first making sure the new gear could pass a vital seismic safety test required ...
“It may be possible to drive tree-related outages to less than 17 per 1,000 miles or to have less than 0.02 percent of trees in contact, but that would require a level of investment greater than what ...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — An engineer pushed for Pacific Gas and Electric to perform more rigorous tests on its pipes before a fatal gas line explosion killed eight people, but the company pushed back, the ...
A strength test that Pacific Gas and Electric Co. says it conducted in 1956 of the San Bruno pipeline that exploded in 2010 damaged an already-defective weld and ultimately caused the disaster, the ...