In 1979 , Abalone Alliance members held a 38-day sit-in in the Californian Governor Jerry Brown 's office to protest continued operation of Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station , which was a duplicate of the Three Mile Island facility . In 1989 , Sacramento voters voted to shut down the Rancho Seco power plant . The salient issues were mostly economic ; the plant kept breaking down , and it had been shut from late 1985 to early 1988 for repairs , forcing the district to buy electricity from neighbors
Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island accident
Anti-nuclear movement in California