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San Onofre still costing customers, Del Mar calls for public meetings on nuclear plant's woes
So What? Any relevant comment on the topic instead of just the wording?— September 29, 2012 3:53 p.m.
San Onofre still costing customers, Del Mar calls for public meetings on nuclear plant's woes
Ha Ha Ha Please post anything you even think is close to not being 100% Spot On... Good Luck...— September 28, 2012 7:06 p.m.
San Onofre still costing customers, Del Mar calls for public meetings on nuclear plant's woes
FLASH: The #1 US Nuclear Safety Concern ==> San Onofre Nuclear Waste Generating Station http://shar.es/50B8K— September 27, 2012 4:21 p.m.
San Onofre still costing customers, Del Mar calls for public meetings on nuclear plant's woes
Decision time: If we allow SONGS Unit 2 to be restarted without our approval, any problems with or without an earthquake or main steam line break could cause an unknown number of already damaged and or stressed/weakened tubes in their poorly designed Replacement Steam Generators to rupture like just **ONE** tube did in Mihama, Japan and cause a Level 3 nuclear accident! **San Onofre already has more tubes that have failed testing than any other reactor facility in the USA!** These failures could even cause a potential reactor meltdown of SONGS Unit 2 resulting in a Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear or Chernobyl level seven disaster here in Southern California. Are you willing to live with that threat? If not, write to all your Congressman and or City Councilman, then join the protest against the Restart of SONGS Unit 2. After all, we are the ones paying for Southern California Edison (SCE), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Officials and all the other Elected Politicians in the Country to protect us. If a Nuclear Disaster were to happen, if your property became radioactive (and basically worthless) where would you and your family be relocated to; and for how long would you have to stay there? As an example in Japan, a year and a half after Fukushima, there are still many hundreds of thousands of nuclear refugees still living in camps, unable to return to their homes because of radiation! *California now has a 40% power surplus without San Onofre* (or even Diablo Canyon) nuclear power plants (per the CPUC), with more risk-free solar capacity being added daily, so it just does not make any sense to gamble our future restarting Unit 2, just to save SCE shareholders some big bucks! ***Now is time to decommission San Onofre.***— September 27, 2012 9:30 a.m.
San Onofre still costing customers, Del Mar calls for public meetings on nuclear plant's woes
Open Letter to Southern California Ratepayers The 1.2 Billion Dollar Question: Do we want to RISK Southern California Edison (SCE) restarting their heavily damaged San Onofre Nuclear #2 Reactor? Background: The International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) ranks nuclear accidents by Levels between 1 and 7, with the number increasing with the scale of the accident. For example, a level one is a minor nuclear event, while a level seven is the highest rating and signifies a major nuclear accident.) On February 9th, 1991, a leak of 55 tons of radioactive primary coolant occurred due to the failure of just one tube in a steam generator (SG) built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (MHI) in the No. 2 pressurized water reactor at the Mihama nuclear power station in Japan, caused wide spread public alarm due to that unsafe nuclear reactor. Mihama was ranked a level three nuclear disaster, the first ever in Japan. Three Mile Island was ranked a level five nuclear disaster (loss of coolant). Chernobyl was ranked a level seven nuclear disaster (loss of coolant). Fukushima Daiichi was ranked a level seven nuclear disaster (loss of coolant). Current situation of SORE (San Onofre Reactor Emergency): On January 31, 2012, one tube leak was discovered at San Onofre SONGS Unit 3 that resulted in some radioactivity being released into the atmosphere. Upon further testing, eight more tubes in the steam generators (SG) failed pressure testing. What this means is that the SONGS accident could have been many times worse than Mihama Nuclear Disaster, especially if both reactors were online and we had a big quake, so all of us in Southern California were just plain lucky that day! These almost new steam generators (SG) were just built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (MHI) to specific design specifications supplied and approved by Southern California Edison (SCE) engineers, without any additional Nuclear Regulatory Commission Design review because they were told that the replacement SG’s were just like the ones they were replacing, which was not the case! In reality, they were significant changes made to the design by SCE, which has caused the tubes to start to fail. In short, Californians were VERY LUCKY that San Onofre was not running under full power and we suffered a big earthquake, because if those tubes failed then we would now be having a major nuclear accident on our hands thanks to SCE's design debacle! Additionally SCE should immediately refund all rate payers the est. 1.3 billion dollars that we have been charged (so far) for this debacle, since we are not receiving any ENERGY! **Now the question is**, "Why have we heard nothing about this in the Union Tribune and or the local TV News programs? I believe that SCE and SDG&E are putting massive pressure on them to stay away from this story, because of the BIG MONEY INVOLVED! Kudos to the Reader for "not taking a dive" in this fight to publicize THIS BIG RIP OFF!— September 27, 2012 9:15 a.m.
San Onofre still costing customers, Del Mar calls for public meetings on nuclear plant's woes
Big money Utilities don't want to lose their market share and they are making it almost impossible for Solar to be installed! Until the people of California DEMAND freedom from their Energy Taskmasters, they will continue to be slaves to them... It is amazing to think that the people of California and the USA who pride themselves on being so independent allow this Energy SHAM to continue, especially since they like many other Countries are totally dependent on Middle Eastern oil and or RISKY Nuclear! Until our Governor decides to shake up the CPUC, California will continue to drag its feet instead of race toward Energy independence; just imagine, we could be Solar (of all flavors) Energy EXPORTERS and jump start our economy providing we have true energy Leadership instead of a Nuclear Fix* * http://is.gd/DzSrY1 The nuclear industries policy of donating massive amounts of money to insure that all levels of Government support Nuclear Energy to protect their market share despite it’s enormous environmental RISK of yet another Fukushima, instead of supporting less expensive, NON RISKY Eco Friendly Solar energy.— September 27, 2012 9:05 a.m.
Group to Ask for Full Disclosure on San Onofre
A 1.2 Billion dollar jam since rate payers will demand a FULL refund and I doubt that even the PRO Industry CPUC will not order it or it will mean that they are in bed with SCE! SCE has already laid off about 1300 employees but soon you will see Big Shots start to "retire" with their golden parachutes while the rank in file workers continue to suffer! Nuclear Gate will start making the National news very soon! Salute to Don Bauder for being a real reporter, not just another talking head...— September 24, 2012 10:01 a.m.
UCAN's Request for Relief Tentatively Turned Down
Here is why we need a UCAN or something similar: Energy Upgrade falls far short of goal http://is.gd/9KFhS6 snip According to figures from the Energy Commission, $40.9 million went directly into rebates for homeowners and businesses, while $56.5 million was spent implementing the program, marketing it to the public, training contractors and making sure projects saved as much energy as intended. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Energy-Upgrade… This is just another way that the CPUC allows the Utilities to drag their feet instead of allowing rate payers to go GREEN ASAP...— September 24, 2012 9:36 a.m.
UCAN's Request for Relief Tentatively Turned Down
That is what I wrote, not some spam... Thanks, More late night crime due to all the new bars, think PB w/o the ocean...— September 24, 2012 9:34 a.m.
UCAN's Request for Relief Tentatively Turned Down
Looking at the number of blog posts, far too many people are more interested in Sports than current events, I guess that is why FOX outbid everyone else for the football games...— September 23, 2012 4:10 p.m.