By Jonathan C. Jobe Dec 28, 2020 To those of our readers who have read my writings previously, you have heard this tirade before and I apologize in advance. But, here it is again. I lived in Sacrament, California, in 1981 and 1982. The apartment my family and I lived in was totally electric, and for those who donât know, it gets as hot in Sacramento in the summer as it does in Oklahoma and sometimes worse. At that time, the Ranch Seco nuclear power plant, a nuclear plant paid for by the taxpayers of Sacramento and owned by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District â aptly nicknamed âSMUDâ â was operating the facility at 40 percent of its capacity.