My Humboldt Diary

Bob Rowen's Humboldt Diary provides a rare inside view of the unscrupulous behavior of Corporate America coupled with the government's unprincipled and tenacious commitment to protect a failed and dangerous technology. Rowen's Diary exposes the truth about the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant and what actually happened there. The Humboldt Bay story needs to be told for principally two reasons. First because the resurgence of nuclear power looms on the...
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Bob Rowen's Humboldt Diary provides a rare inside view of the unscrupulous behavior of Corporate America coupled with the government's unprincipled and tenacious commitment to protect a failed and dangerous technology. Rowen's Diary exposes the truth about the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant and what actually happened there. The Humboldt Bay story needs to be told for principally two reasons. First because the resurgence of nuclear power looms on the horizon, and second, because the attitudes and underlying philosophies that gave rise to the Humboldt Bay fiasco still pose a serious threat to those wonderful ideals we all cherish and hold most dear. We can't just give lip service and blind allegiance to the assumptions that make use who we think we are but rather we must be willing to examine our institutions in business and government and hold them accountable to our expectations of them. Rowen's account of what happened at Humboldt Bay reveals not only the need for much stricter regulation and oversight of the nuclear industry, notwithstanding the swapping of the AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) for the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission), but also argues it may not be possible in America's free enterprise, democratic society that has the "best government" corporate money can buy.