{"id":3440,"date":"2013-05-15T12:39:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T16:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2013-05-15T12:41:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T16:41:29","slug":"no-san-onofre-nuke-startup-decision-until-june-at-least-nrc-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/no-san-onofre-nuke-startup-decision-until-june-at-least-nrc-chair.html","title":{"rendered":"No San Onofre nuke startup decision until June at least –NRC Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nTwo more victories for anti-nuke activists:\r\nSan Onofre restart decision pushed back at least until June,\r\nand webcasts of California Public Utilities Commission hearings going on right now.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nAbby Sewell reported for the L.A. Times yesterday,\r\n\r\nDecision on San Onofre pushed back to June at the earliest<\/a>,\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nThe plant’s operator Southern California Edison had hoped at one\r\npoint to have one of the plant’s two units operating by summer, but\r\nNRC Chairwoman Allison Macfarlane made it clear that will not\r\nhappen.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nMacfarlane told reporters Tuesday after a speech, “You know, the\r\nprocess is very complicated now. Almost every day it gets a little\r\nmore complicated…. Right now I can tell you a decision on restart\r\nwon’t happen until the end of June, certainly after the middle of\r\nJune.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“It may get pushed back later,” she said. “I don’t know.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nShe didn’t say much about the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB)\r\n\r\ndecision to require NRC public hearings<\/a> before any decision on\r\nrestarting San Onofre,\r\nbut she did say this:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\n“There are potential opportunities for public hearings,” she said.\r\n“At this point in time I know there is strong public sentiment for a\r\npublic hearing prior to relicensing, and I understand the concerns\r\nthe folks who want that have, but there’s multiple moving parts.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nSo NRC has already backed off from its initial denial about public\r\nhearings and is now willing to consider them.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nAnd two days ago Abby Sewell reported\r\n\r\nGroups continue push for video webcast of San Onofre hearings<\/a>,\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nAn initial round of hearings was set to begin Monday in a California\r\nPublic Utilities Commission investigation of the costs to ratepayers\r\nfrom the San Onofre nuclear plant’s ongoing outage.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nActivists were incensed that a CPUC administrative law judge ruled\r\nagainst allowing videotaping of the hearings, which are set to take\r\nplace in San Francisco, far from the plant’s location in northern\r\nSan Diego County.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nYesterday she could write:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nAdministrative judges initially angered activists by not allowing\r\nvideotaping of the proceedings, but later agreed to post a webcast\r\nof the hearings.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nSo far, CPUC has yesterday’s hearings up in two parts,\r\n\r\nPart 1<\/a>\r\nand\r\n\r\nPart 2<\/a>.\r\nThey’re in a hokey format, not on YouTube or Vimeo,\r\nbut at least they’re available.\r\nIn Part 1, they put into the public record some documents from the\r\n\r\nAlliance for Nuclear Responsibility<\/a>\r\nand someone (couldn’t catch her name)\r\ncontinued cross-examining someone (unnamed)\r\nwho maybe works for Southern California Edison.\r\nThe apparent Socal Edison person mostly didn’t have the answers\r\nor documents requested.\r\nNo wonder they don’t want to have real public hearings!\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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