NOTICE (from GD): NRC meeting on San Onofre will be tonight between 6 and 9 p.m. (PDT) at the Hills Hotel, 25205 La Paz Road in Laguna Hills, Calif.
The FBI is investigating allegations about sabotage at the San Onofore Nuclear Plant. Plant management thinks its an employee or employees that tampered with the safety system, meaning that if a reactor was running and something went wrong the shut off valve won’t work. Let me start off by asking, where is the secuity at this plant? Don’t they have cameras?
If that isn’t crazy enough news — how about the plant could be restarting Unit #2 as early as February 2nd of next year? According to Gary Headrick from the San Clemente Green who alerted me to this breaking news, Edison plans to:
1. Start a defective nuclear reactor, run it at 70% and see what happens
2. Do this while the FBI investigates one case of sabotage, (are there others?)
3. Disregard a Union leader’s claim that the workforce thinks a restart is not safe.
“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has rescheduled a meeting with representatives of Southern California Edison Co. (SCE) for Nov. 30 to address the company’s response to the NRC’s Confirmatory Action Letter concerning actions required to be taken to address steam generator tube degradation at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The plant, operated by SCE, is located in San Clemente, Calif.
“The meeting will be held between 6 and 9 p.m. (PDT) at the Hills Hotel, 25205 La Paz Road in Laguna Hills, Calif.
“NRC staff will meet with SCE officials to discuss the company’s response to the NRC Confirmatory Action Letter of March 27, 2012, concerning actions required to be taken by the company to address steam generator tube degradation at San Onofre. The company’s response to the Confirmatory Action Letter is available at: http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1228/ML122850320.html
If you can’t make the meeting in person, I understand it will be webcast live at: http://video.nrc.gov/
*Homer would never knowingly do anything to upset Mr. Burns…..you know it…we know it and even George “the Elder” knows it. As soon as he gets out of the hospital and back home…that is!
*So the news is: Number 3 will remain closed. Foreseeably FOREVER! Number 2 may reopen after the NRC makes their decision in May of 2013. This would be a six months test. If it doesn’t explode and defoliate all of Southern California…..by then..
well….Homer can go back to work with some job security and with the required good graces of Mr. Burns of course. Please!
We are still waiting for the the daily radiation readings of air, water and ground…as they have in Japan…around our San Onofre Nuclear Facility – so they are posted on the Edison web site and open to the public.
The Huffington Post has an article about the NRC’s protecting the power companies instead of looking out for you and me. It focuses on the plants in the midwest being in danger of flooding if an upstream dam breaks. This article deals with the claims made by whistleblowers, who thankfully have a conscience.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/nuclear-power-whistleblowers_n_2232108.html?utm_source=Huff+Po+expose+on+Flood+threat&utm_campaign=Google+Analytics+Test&utm_medium=email
Here is the latest on SONGS…. it’s looking like a restart is not going to happen!
From the UT San Diego:
“A federal board Friday ordered the operator of a shuttered nuclear power plant in California to turn over dozens of pages of documents that were withheld when the company submitted a plan to restart one of its damaged twin reactors.”
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/dec/07/apnewsbreak-dispute-over-records-at-nuclear-plant/?ap
Imagine that! SCE not being straight with the public on the dangers of their nuclear power plant.