{"id":186,"date":"2013-01-19T05:30:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/shutdown-at-san-onofre-permanent-this-time.html"},"modified":"2013-01-19T05:30:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T10:30:43","slug":"shutdown-at-san-onofre-permanent-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/shutdown-at-san-onofre-permanent-this-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Shutdown at San Onofre: permanent this time?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nCalifornia only has a couple of nuclear reactor locations (unlike the\n32 reactors within 500 miles of here<\/a>),\nand one is in even worse shape than the other: San Onofre,\nalmost as bad as\nCrystal River<\/a>.\nI’m sure Southern Company would never cut corners or have\ndesign or\n\nconstruction problems<\/a> at Plant Vogtle, right?\n<\/p>\n

\nHarvey Wasserman wrote for AlterNet 7 January 2013,\n\nShowdown at San Onofre: Why the Nuclear Industry May Be Dealt a Big Blow<\/a>,\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nPerched on an ocean cliff between Los Angeles and San Diego, the\n\n<\/a>\nreactors’ owners cut unconscionable corners in replacing their\nmulti-million-dollar steam generators. According to Russell Hoffman,\none of California’s leading experts on San Onofre, inferior metals\nand major design failures turned what was meant to be an upgrade\ninto an utter fiasco.\n<\/p>\n

\nInstalled by Mitsubishi, the generators simply did not work. When\nthey were shut nearly a year ago, tubes were leaking, banging\ntogether and overall rendering further operations impossible.\n<\/p>\n

\nSouthern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric have\nunofficially thrown in the towel on Unit 3. But they’re lobbying\nhard to get at least Unit 2 back up and running. Their technical\nproblems are so serious that they’ve asked the Nuclear Regulatory\nCommission to let them run Unit 2 at 70% capacity. In essence, they\nwant to \u201csee what happens\u201d without daring to take the\nreactor to full power.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe NRC has expressed serious doubts. On December 26 it demanded\nanswers to more than 30 questions about the plant’s technical realities.\nThere have been assertions that unless San Onofre can be shown as operable\nat full power, its license should be negated.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nIt’s good the NRC got around to doing something, after\n\n\n\n<\/a>\nit\n\nrefused to show the public<\/a>\nthe licensee documents in which\n\nsupposedly the licensees documented some experimental data.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhen \neven Forbes wonders whether nuclear is a bad investment,<\/a>\nwhy not\n\nsolar and wind instead?<\/a>\nThat’s what\n\nTEPCO is doing instead of the broken Fukushima nuclear reactors.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nThere’s much more in\n\nthe article,<\/a> like this:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe only real reason San Onofre’s owners want to get it back up is\nto charge the ratepayers for their failed repairs.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nIn Georgia,\n\nGeorgia Power is charging customers\neven before the new nukes are built<\/a>,\nand\n\ncan keep charging even if they’re cancelled!<\/a>\nUnless we convince the legislature or the PSC to change that.\nLegislature’s in session right now!\n<\/p>\n

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