{"id":2852,"date":"2013-04-07T11:46:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2013-04-08T22:14:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T02:14:35","slug":"activists-grill-nrc-on-san-onofre-restart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/activists-grill-nrc-on-san-onofre-restart.html","title":{"rendered":"Activists Grill NRC on San Onofre Restart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/eon3?feature=watch\">\r\nEcological Options Network (EON)<\/a>\r\nposted\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GswNqQ82bW4\">\r\nvideo of public comments<\/a> at the latest\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrc.gov\/reading-rm\/doc-collections\/event-status\/reactor-status\/2013\/20130118ps.html\">\r\nNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)<\/a> meeting\r\nabout restarting San Onofre 2,\r\nwhere\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/sc-edison-knew-san-onofre-nuke-steam-generators-were-flawed-before-installation.html\">\r\ndocuments indicate Southern California Edison knew the new steam\r\ngenerators were defective years before they even installed them<\/a>.\r\n<p style=\"text: align:center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GswNqQ82bW4\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\nEON\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GswNqQ82bW4\">\r\nnoted:<\/a>\r\n<blockquote>In these video excerpts from the 4-3-2013 NRC webcast, informed\r\nactivists hammer the NRC staff and SoCal Edison reps with\r\npenetrating comments and questions about apparently collusive\r\nfast-track plans to restart one of San Onofre&#8217;s broken\r\nreactors\u2014in a tsunami and earthquake zone, in the middle of a\r\nstrategic U.S. military base, in a surrounding urban area with a\r\npopulation of 8.5 million people\u2014a plant that is not\r\ncost-effective 99% of the time, operated by a utility with the worst\r\nsafety record in the country.\r\n<p>\r\nWhat could possibly go wrong?\r\n<p>\r\nParticipants include Ace Hoffman, David Freeman, Kendra Ulrich, Dan\r\nHirsch, John Geesman, Ray Lutz, Gary Headrick and Myla Reson.<\/blockquote>\r\nActivists just helped convince NRC\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/david-defeats-goliath-calvert-cliffs-3-nuke-license-denied-first-ever-by-nrc.html\">\r\nto deny a license for Calvert Cliffs 3 in Maryland<\/a>,\r\nand<!--more-->\r\nthe proposed new nuke in\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/levy-co-fl-nuke-likely-not-to-be-built.html\">\r\nLevy County Florida<\/a>\r\nprobably will not be built,\r\nafter its new owner Duke Energy\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/renewable-energy-much-needed-in-georgia-john-s-quarterman.html\">\r\nalready decided not to restart Crystal River<\/a>\r\nand Dominion Power decided to close Wisconsin&#8217;s Kewaunee reactor.\r\nLike Moody&#8217;s said back in 2009,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/nuclears-bet-the-farm-risk-moodys.html\">\r\nnuclear is a &#8220;bet-the-farm&#8221; risk<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nThe NRC does publish\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/video.nrc.gov\/ViewSearchResults.php?view_id=2&amp;types[Clip]=on&amp;types[AgendaItem]=on&amp;types[Caption]=on&amp;allwords=san+onofre\">\r\nits own videos<\/a> of its meetings,\r\nbut it wants you to use Microsoft Silverlight to view them.\r\nI guess NRC hasn&#8217;t heard\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoq.com\/news\/2011\/09\/Metro-Plug-ins\">\r\nMicrosoft has abandoned Silverlight<\/a>\r\nand\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/microsoft-pulls-the-plug-on-its-silverlight-net-site-7000008494\/\">\r\nclosed down silverlight.net<\/a>.\r\nSo NRC favors a dead technology for video publishing,\r\njust like it favors a dead technology for electric power.\r\n<p>\r\nNRC does have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NRCgov\">\r\na YouTube channel<\/a>,\r\nbut that seems to consist of PR fluff videos, not videos of meetings.\r\n<p>\r\nNRC also has links to agendas, but they seem to all say:\r\n<blockquote>This agenda is not currently published. Please try again later or\r\ncontact the publisher.\r\n<p>\r\nIf you are authorized to publish the agenda, please log in to view\r\nthe draft agenda.<\/blockquote>\r\nPerhaps someone authorized could log in and publish the agendas.\r\nPlus the rest of the documents that the licensee doesn&#8217;t want\r\nthe public to see.\r\nYou know, the public that has to deal with radiation leaks,\r\nmeltdowns, and explosions.\r\n<p>\r\n-jsq","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ecological Options Network (EON) posted video of public comments at the latest Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) meeting about restarting San Onofre 2, where documents indicate Southern California Edison knew the new steam generators were defective years before they even installed them. 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