Jose Canseco lived in San Ramon when I was growing up. Apparently he was in Dublin as recently as April, a few weeks ago.
City Series: Insider’s Guide to San Ramon
https://www.diablomag.com/travel-places/getaways/city-series-insider-s-guide-to-san-ramon/article_24d62d56-8465-11eb-a074-c79e285b2a46.html
Rob Corder, 2012
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PG&E geodesic dome, next to Aerojet nuclear reactor. Episodes of Mythbusters have been filmed here.
Jack Parsons was a founding member and vice-President of Aerojet.
During the early to mid-60s, "Aerojet built a large concrete pad in San Ramon, CA, for the purpose of rocket engine testing for the space program. Before it got used, President Johnson and NASA decided to move these activities to the upcoming space center in Houston, TX."
San Ramon California, the Nuclear Reactor is still in operation
This was the site of Aerojet which made nuclear reactors for colleges and research institutions. When they started the nuclear reactor San Ramon had a population of less than 200 people within a mile of the site. Today it is in the middle of the city and the city parks its school busses on the site of one of the radioactive labs. At any one time was building 10 portable nuclear reactors.
Today the City of San Ramon parks its School Buses on the site.
https://disasterarea.home.blog/2022/03/08/san-ramon-california-the-nuclear-reactor-is-still-in-operation/
More about geodesic dome in the photo in the article above
Gigantic golf ball or scientific sphere? Geodesic dome can create lightening
https://web.archive.org/web/20110930092115/https://www.sanramonexpress.com/news/show_story.php?id=3858
Inside PG&E's Smart Grid Lab (2013)
https://www.tdworld.com/grid-innovations/smart-grid/article/20963864/inside-pges-smart-grid-lab
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San Ramon Valley museum marks historic plane crash with exhibit
https://danvillesanramon.com/news/2014/01/26/san-ramon-valley-museum-marks-historic-plane-crash-with-exhibitMemories on 50th anniversary of airplane disaster in the East Bay still run strong, The Mercury News (2016)
https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/05/06/memories-on-50th-anniversary-of-airplane-disaster-in-the-east-bay-still-run-strong/
NO MENTION in L.A. Times article
U.S. aviation security timeline, Los Angeles Times (2011)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210513171927/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-jun-12-la-tr-airline-safety-timeline-20110612-story.html
How the era of skyjackings changed the way we fly, CNN (2017)
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/02/us/us-airline-hijackings-1970s-declassified/index.html
A Brief History of Airplane Hijackings, From the Cold War to D.B. Cooper, Smithsonian Magazine (2022)
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, hijackings occurred, on average, once every five days globally. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-airplane-hijackings-db-cooper-netflix-180980408/
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