Comments on: Edison assures safety of crippled San Onofre nuclear plant

By: gnomesang

gnomesang — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:40:08 +0000

shut it down before we have another fukushima in our backyard.

By: joy cash

joy cash — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:10:08 +0000

Edison has not taken any responsibility for their long record of holding the worse safety record of all 104 US nuclear plants. This is unthinkable as we consider the risk to 8.4 million residents within 50 miles of these plants. These plants are located between 2 active earthquake faults.

Recent East coast natural disasters should alert us, once again, to illogical risks involved in nuclear energy industry & attending waste. Our aging plants nationwide are Fukushimas waiting to happen.

By: CaptD

CaptD — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:01:25 +0000

Just wait until SCE makes public all its technical documents having to do with their designs and their specific restart investigations of their poorly designed replacement steam generators to the NRC, then Management heads will start to roll at SCE, and I’m not talking “regular” Union Workers…

By: CaptD

CaptD — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:01:00 +0000

Something not mentioned at the last NRC meeting was the health implication of living near San Onofre:

CHILD CANCER DEATHS SOAR IN ORANGE COUNTY

In the most recent decade (1999-2009), the Orange County cancer death rate among children age 0-19 was 28% greater than the U.S. rate. This compares to just a 1% excess for the 30 years prior. A total of 312 Orange County children died from cancer in 1999-2009. The high rate in Orange County is statistically significant. While many factors can contribute to child cancer risk, radioactivity released into the environment from the aging San Onofre nuclear reactors should be considered as one potential cause.

Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Wonder. http://wonder.cdc.gov/mortSQL.html

NOTE: Any attempt by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s to conduct a study of cancer near nuclear plants represents a serious conflict of interest. For decades, the NRC ignored the health issue of cancer near nuclear plants in its decisions to grant new reactor licenses and extend existing ones, but it has consistently maintained that the relatively low levels of radioactivity emitted from reactors fall below federally-set limits, and are not harmful to the public. Thus, the NRC has demonstrated consistent bias on the health/cancer issue, and any study it commissions and manages will also be biased. Such a study can only be conducted by truly independent experts on this topic that have no connection/relationship to the NRC or the US Government.

I heard that The DAB Safety Team is now working on getting the required funding to get this study done by an independent expert ASAP and hopefully it will be completed before any further Restart discussions take place!
Update, San Diego County which is (after Orange County) downwind from San Onofre also has about the same high levels of Childhood cancers as Orang County!
OMG…

By: CaptD

CaptD — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:00:06 +0000

I’d like to suggest that the NRC Resident Inspector post a daily update of what is being done, so that everyone that is interested in what exactly is happening at San Onofre can stay informed.

This is especially important now that SCE is re-pressurizing damaged RSG 2E-089 after they have only inspected about 8% of iUnit 2′s SG tubes for wear and or leakage, despite the technology being available to do so. SCE is now under great financial pressure and Southern California does not need any more radioactive releases…

San Onofre, Where Haste Makes Radioactive Waste….

By: EYNU

EYNU — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:17:25 +0000

Your article seems to be missing some local information. Many speakers did appear before the Encinitas City Council (on several occasions). According to the minutes, the Encinitas City Council voted unanimously on Sept. 26, 2012 to a resolution to send a letter to the NRC using the stronger language, as Del Mar had, for a public license hearing for the San Onofre Plant.

By: Joe Holtzman

Joe Holtzman — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:07:46 +0000

After being exposes to lie after lie why would anyone believe Southern California Edison ?