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☯ Take many small steps To eliminate stumbles As we move forward— September 22, 2012 3:46 p.m.
UCAN's Request for Relief Tentatively Turned Down
It is no surprise that the CPUC which is only to happy to allow SoCal ratepayers to be ripped off for 1.2 BILLION Dollars (see http://is.gd/nx8sR9 ) by SCE and SDG&E but they will not let a Pro Ratepayer group get new Leadership... *CA Energy Oversight needs a different kind of* "**FIXING**"... I think this is a behind the scenes attempt by the Utilities and especially SDG&E to prevent any public discussion or worse for them, **a public demand for a REFUND of the over 2 MILLION DOLLARS A DAY WE ARE ALL PAYING FOR ZERO ENERGY...**** No wonder many are calling for the CPUC to be abolished by Governor Brown before they give away the rest of the Sate of CA to the Utilities, because nobody is telling the Public about it... *Hello Governor Brown, do you serve the People of CA, or just the Big Utilities"? For more info and comments in a great KPBS article about this see: http://is.gd/7qGGg5— September 22, 2012 11:26 a.m.
Group to Ask for Full Disclosure on San Onofre
Agreed, If Gov. Brown fails to act then he is part of the CA Energy Ripoff Problem! CA will never have low cost "CLEAN" energy until the CPUC is replaced with a non Energy Industry/Utility lapdog...— September 22, 2012 8:40 a.m.
Group to Ask for Full Disclosure on San Onofre
SAN ONOFRE: CBG Study Shows Safety of Restarting Either Unit 2 or 3 is Questionable http://committeetobridgethegap.org/?p=390 snip In a report released today, CBG conducted an exhaustive analysis of data from nuclear plants nationwide. After analyzing the data, it became stunningly clear that San Onofre’s Unit 2 reactor has about 400 times as many damaged steam generator tubes as the median number at comparable plants over the same operational period, and Unit 3 has more than 450 times as many. Each San Onofre reactor has greater than a thousand times as many indications of wear on the tubes than the typical reactor in its first cycle of operation. And each San Onofre unit has had to plug more tubes than all replacement steam generators nationwide combined. “San Onofre Unit 2 and 3 are both very ill nuclear plants. They are far, far outside the norm of national experience,” writes Daniel Hirsch, report co-author. “Restarting either San Onofre reactor with crippled steam generators that have not been repaired or replaced would be a questionable undertaking at best.” Hirsch is President of the Committee to Bridge the Gap. Image from that article link— September 22, 2012 8:29 a.m.
Group to Ask for Full Disclosure on San Onofre
Great article and a large number of comments: Proposed Changes To San Onofre’s Decommissioning Fund - KPBS http://is.gd/7qGGg5 + Kudos to KPBS and Don Bauder of the Reader for being brave enough to discuss the 1.2 BILLION DOLLAR PROBLEM at San Onofre and then allow readers to post comments without requiring a FaceBook account like the Union Tribune and now Channel 10 are now doing! When the North County Times is sold, I expect the same thing to happen to them! San Diego's traditional MSM is now being "fluffed Up" and we are losing information about all of topics of major importance and the ability to discuss them publicly!— September 22, 2012 7:36 a.m.
Group to Ask for Full Disclosure on San Onofre
====== Why are all these questions important? The answers will help determine if the SoCal rate payers or SCE + SDG&E shareholders have to foot the bill for SORE (San Onofre Reactor Emergency) which will be over a BILLION DOLLARS... Remember, SoCal rate payers are now also paying about 65 Million dollars a month for the SORE (San Onofre Reactor Emergency) yet they are receiving nothing in return except more Nuclear Baloney* (NB)... This money would be much better spent adding additional Solar (of all flavors) capacity and then jump starting the SoCal economy with the multibillion dollar decommissioning of SORE (San Onofre Reactor Emergency). * http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Nu…— September 21, 2012 6:52 p.m.
Group to Ask for Full Disclosure on San Onofre
More frm the web: Here are some questions (Others posted on other sites) about these Replacement Generators that were ordered: 1. According to some News Paper Comments and Industry Reports in 2004, the going price for each 620 Ton CE Replacement Steam Generator was estimated between 200-250 Million Dollars (Per Piece). How did SCE CNO/President in 2004 convince MHI to build such large complicated and premium generators for 569 million dollars, which is almost 230 million dollars short of the market price and funds approved by CPCU? 2. Since MHI had experience building only Fort Calhoun Generator of less than 300 tons, how did the SCE Engineers Technically Qualify MHI? 3. Which other utilities’ QA Program, SCE took credit to approve Mitsubishi’s quality assurance program. Fort Calhoun?, French? Belgium? Japan? 4. How come SCE did not apply to NRC for increasing the plugging limit for Old CE Generators, so this they would have had more time to think, research and not rush according to Michael Peevey? 5. Which CE Replacement Generator US Utilities SCE benchmark to develop such detailed design and performance specifications or they just modified the Old Generator Specifications with New Industry Information? Were the engineers, who wrote, checked and approved the specifications were steam generator experts or was it another steam generator expert in the background, who directed all the work? 6. Where did all the claims of challenges, reward, innovations and teamwork between SCE and MHI go wrong? 7. Were the SCE Engineers sent to Japan to check MHI work and approve documents/test results were qualified in that field, or they were just in the training/sight-seeing process? 8. Who made the decision to make all these numerous design changes and determined the changes were “Like for Like” and did not need a Licensing Amendment Process? 9. Which SCE Engineer furnished all these changes, information/documents to which NRC Engineer, who decided it was OK to proceed without a Licensing Amendment Process? 10. Which SCE engineer approved/validated the MHI Thermal-Hydraulic FIT-IIIFIVATS code Inputs and Calculations? 11. To get 10% heat transfer equivalent by switching from Alloy 600 To alloy 690, SCE needed to add 935 tubes, but they only added 377 tubes. What happened to the balance of 568 tubes? Were the length of 9727 tubes increased and by how much to make up for the 533 tubes? 12. How come the SCE Engineers did not question the MHI benchmarking, verification and validation of the FIT-III thermal-hydraulic model? 13. How come the SCE engineers did not contact their counter parts at PVNGS for information/advice, since PVNGS has the Largest CE Replacement Generators (800 Tons) in the world, were built in early 2001-2005 time frames and are running successfully? 14. Were the OLD CE Steam Generators and new replacement generators exact in Thermal Output (MWe) or were there minor differences?— September 21, 2012 6:52 p.m.
Group to Ask for Full Disclosure on San Onofre
Seen on the web: 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 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 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 21, 2012 6:50 p.m.
UCAN Looking for New Executive Director
I find it strange that UCAN came under all this "HEAT" just as SDG&E is trying to justify its part in the San Onofre rip off of over a BILLION dollars that rate payers have paid and received nothing in return from SCE and SDG&E... That Debacle makes the UCAN case seem like *chump change* in comparison, yet nothing is written in the UT about it, I wonder why? Kudos to KPBS.org for following the real THEFT STORY in SoCal http://is.gd/4Ly1Bk and http://is.gd/sAxArw— September 17, 2012 4:09 p.m.