Nuclear ‘Beach Ball’ Heralds Nuclear Age for Southland

A Janu­ary 29, 1968 art­icle marked the emer­gence of a “huge steel ball” that could be “the first of many pop­ping up along the South­ern Cali­for­nia coast in the next 10 to 20 years to provide a new sup­ply of elec­tri­city and wa­ter for the na­tion’s fast­est grow­ing re­gion.”