{"id":4216,"date":"2013-06-21T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2013-06-21T06:35:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T10:35:37","slug":"if-missing-docs-sunk-san-onofre-will-doosan-document-forging-sink-vogtle-and-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/if-missing-docs-sunk-san-onofre-will-doosan-document-forging-sink-vogtle-and-summer.html","title":{"rendered":"If missing docs sunk San Onofre, will Doosan document-forging sink Vogtle and Summer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nIf documents can doom the San Onofre nuke and maybe the NRC Chair,\r\nhow about forged Doosan documents and Plant Vogtle?\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nMatthew L. Wald wrote yesterday for The Caucus,\r\n\r\nTussle Over Nuclear Plant Documents May Sink N.R.C. Appointment<\/a>,\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nThe botched repair job that doomed a California nuclear plant has\r\ncreated a political whirlpool that may be close to claiming another\r\nvictim: the chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe issue is no longer the plant itself, San Onofre, which the\r\nmajority owner, Southern California Edison, announced on June 7 it\r\nwould permanently close. The problem now is that Senator Barbara\r\nBoxer, Democrat of California, who is chairwoman of the Senate\r\nEnvironment and Public Works Committee and a longtime critic of\r\nnuclear power, has been seeking documents from the Nuclear\r\nRegulatory Commission about the work the utility did and how the\r\ncommission oversaw that work.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe chairwoman of the commission, Allison M. Macfarlane, agreed\r\nduring her confirmation hearing to a blanket request to provide\r\ndocuments. Opponents of nuclear power say that some of the San\r\nOnofre documents could raise safety issues about plants that are\r\nstill running. Ms. Boxer’s office said they could also influence\r\nCalifornia regulators as they decide who should pay the nearly $1\r\nbillion cost of addressing the failed repair.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe Senate committee and the nuclear commission are locked in a\r\ndispute over the documents, and Dr. Macfarlane’s term ends on June\r\n30. President Obama — who appointed her to fill out the term\r\nof the previous chairman, Gregory B. Jaczko, who resigned under\r\npressure last year — has nominated Dr. Macfarlane for a full\r\nfive-year term, but Ms. Boxer is refusing to have the committee vote\r\non the nomination until the argument over the documents is settled.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe Senate has only three meeting days left before June 30. Dr.\r\nMacfarlane, a geologist, has told friends that she has been offered\r\na university teaching position and will accept it if she is not\r\nconfirmed for a full term.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nAs I said\r\n\r\nwhen she was appointed<\/a>, it sounds like the NRC is not telling\r\nits new chief everything.\r\nAnd now one of the chief’s chiefs is tired of that.\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nSo how about those\r\n\r\ndocuments the Korean government says nuke supplier Doosan forged<\/a>?\r\nHas the NRC checked into Plant Vogtle documents yet?\r\nMaybe the\r\n\r\nGA PSC<\/a>\r\ncould do its job?\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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