5/21/2013 Star Trek spoof shot inside San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station by senior execs

Source: ABC News 10 via Enformable
Date: 5/21/2013

Editor's Note: Map of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station below, which shows many of the past nuclear safety incidents with the nuclear power plant.

1/13/2013 Repairs at Four Nuclear Reactors Are So Expensive That They Should Not Be Restarted

Source: Fairewinds Energy Education via MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 1/13/2013

Video Description

Repairs at Four Nuclear Reactors Are So Expensive That They Should Not Be Restarted

Fairewinds examines continuing problems at four US nuclear reactors, each of which have been shutdown for more than two years. Upstream dam failures continue to plague Ft. Calhoun, steam generator tube failures at San Onofre jeopardized Los Angeles. Crystal River's containment repairs burden Floridians with excessive costs. Finally, Arnie examines a new proposal by the Department of Energy to melt radioactive scrap metal and reuse it in consumer goods like knives and forks.
http://fairewinds.com/content/repairs-four-nuclear-reactors-are-so-expensive-...

Pipes are not where they should be in drawings and calculations not correct at Fort Calhoun in Missouri. Upstream dams could fail (old infrastructure) causing a cascading fail resulting in St. Ouuis being waist deep in water. More than 35 feet more water than the flood just 18 months ago causing an upstream fail flooding of BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS resulting in the loss of ultimate heat sink. The entire midwest would be in jeopardy. (an inland tsunami). Nuclear power plants are NOT designed to withstand a dam failure.

LINKS TO PODCAST ARTICLES HERE:
Tampa Bay Times: Rating agency thinks nuclear plant will be closed
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/rating-agency-thinks-nuclear-pla...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/guest-commentary-the-looming-missouri-da...

Radio interview with Dr. Shanks:
http://www.oneradionetwork2.com/mp3/environment/changes/06.22.11_shanks_berna...

Press release from Congressman Markey:
http://markey.house.gov/sites/markey.house.gov/files/documents/2013-01-11_DOE...

11/9/2012 Coolant, record-keeping troubles at San Onofre

Source: The Orange County Register
Date: 11/9/2012
by: PAT BRENNAN

New problems came to light late this week at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant, including coolant found in the oil system of a backup generator and a record-keeping error stretching back to 1985.


New problems came to light late this week at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant, including coolant found in the oil system of a backup generator and a record-keeping error stretching back to 1985.
None of the problems posed a danger to plant workers or the public, plant operator Southern California Edison and a Nuclear Regulatory spokesman said Friday....
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8/7/2012 Magnitude 4.4 Earthquake 39 miles NW of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

Source: Los Angeles Times, USGS
Date: 8/7/2012 11:23 PM PST

Source: USGS

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake rattled Southern California on Tuesday night. The quake was reported at 11:23 p.m. and was centered around Yorba Linda in northern Orange County.
There was no immediate word of injuries or damage, but the quake was felt over a wide area.
According to the the U.S. Geological Survey, the temblor struck two miles northeast of Yorba Linda, about 29 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
It was felt from Long Beach northwest to Santa Monica, as well as in downtown L.A.
-- Shelby Grad
Map: U.S. Geological Survey

Editor's Note: Using the Google Maps distance measuring too, this earthquake is 39 miles Northwest of the San Onofre Nuclear Station as shown in the nuclear map below.

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6/20/2012 Trouble brewing at the San Onofre nuclear power plant in CA

Source: TheBigPictureRT
Date: Jun 20, 2012

Video Description
Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear joins Thom Hartmann. All is not well at the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant in California - where federal investigators have found major designs flaws in the plant. Just what kind of risk do these designs flaws pose - and could we be looking at a future nuclear disaster on the West Coast? And are our fish getting more and more radioactive? Should you bring a geiger counter to the restaurant or supermarket yet?

Editor's Note: Map of San Onofre Nuclear Generated Station below.

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3/4/2012 San Onofre Power Plant To Get A Visit From Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman

Source: Huffington Post
Date: 04/ 4/12 03:49 PM ET
By: MICHAEL R. BLOOD

 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko (Associated Press) 

LOS ANGELES — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Wednesday that its chairman will visit the ailing San Onofre nuclear power plant on the California coast, where twin reactors have been sidelined because of excessive wear in tubing that carries radioactive water.
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[Editor's Note: Map of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
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3/27/2012 UPDATE 1-U.S. agency to keep SCE's Calif nuclear units shut

Source: Reuters
Date: Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:28pm EDT

(Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission o n T uesday said it will not allow Southern California Edison's San Onofre nuclear generator in California to restart until the agency is sure that the company has addressed premature degradation of tubes in the unit's steam generators.
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3/18/2012 NRC dispatches Augmented Inspection Team after California nuclear facility fails test

Source: Activist Post
Date: 3/18/2012
by: Madison Ruppert

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

After a safety test at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station near San Clemente, California (which we discussed in this episode of End the Lie Radio), resulted in a “significant issue,” the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has moved to send out a so-called Augmented Inspection Team (AIT) to determine the cause of the failure.
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2/7/2012 More Concerns Over San Onofre Safety

Source: San Diego Reader
Date: Posted February 7, 2012, 7:26 a.m.
by: Dave Rice

Concerns about safety and the durability of components at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station are continuing to surface as the plant approaches a full week of complete shutdown. The plant’s Unit 3 reactor was taken out of commission after a radioactive water leak was discovered on January 31, while Unit 2 was already down for scheduled maintenance. The Unit 1 reactor was taken offline permanently in 1992.
...
Read full article here

See also these great article from ENENews:

1. Nuclear Expert: Pipe ruptures at Calif. nuke plant could have lead to meltdown, China Syndrome, catastrophic radioactivity release (VIDEO)
2. San Onofre Whistleblower: This is extremely significant — They had an actual tube rupture — This is very, very significant (VIDEO)

Map of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station:

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2/3/2012 San Onofre: One Leaks, the Other Doesn’t… Yet

Source: capitoilette
Date: 2/3/2012


For those who thought that, with the new year, nuclear power had turned a page and put its “annus horribilis” behind it–as if the calendar were somehow the friend America’s aging reactors–let’s take a quick look at January 2012.
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2/2/2012 San Onofre Shutdown Costing Up To $1 Million A Day

Source: KPBS
Date: Thursday, February 2, 2012
By: Maureen Cavanaugh, Ed Joyce, Patty Lane, Claire Trageser

Above: Murray Jennex, an associate professor at SDSU's Homeland Security Program and former consultant for San Onofre, speaks with Joanne Faryon on KPBS television's Evening Edition about the San Onofre shutdown.

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station remained off-line for a second day today after it was shut down by a small gas leak that possibly spread to the atmosphere.
...
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Map of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station:

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2/1/2012 Radioactive Leak at California Nuclear Power Plant

Source: Washington's Blog
Date: 2/1/2012

Probable Leak at San Onofre Nuclear Plant

The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday:

Officials at the San Onofre nuclear power plant shut down one of the facility’s two units Tuesday evening after a sensor detected a possible leak in a steam generator tube.

9/8/2011 Blackout shuts down San Onofre nuclear reactors

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: September 8, 2011 5:03 pm

The blackout affecting large swaths of San Diego County led to a shutdown of two reactors at the San Onofre nuclear power plant.
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Editor's Note: This is the nuclear power plant 60 miles Southeast of Los Angeles where there was a recent 4.2 magnitude earthquake.  Every time there is a fast unexpected shutdown, or "SCRAM" it degrades the integrity of the reactor core somewhat.  This of course is not a good thing.  See the excellent article "Earthquakes, Hurricanes Highlight Serious Regulation Flaws" for more details on this.

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9/1/2011 4.2 earthquake rumbles across Los Angeles

Source: AP and CBS
Date: September 1, 2011 5:20 PM

(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - A magnitude-4.2 earthquake and aftershocks rattled nerves across the Los Angeles region Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
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Editor's Note: The nearest nuclear power plant I could find was the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station which is 60 miles SE of Los Angeles.

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Fukushima Update, July 25 2011

Source: The Paltry Sapien
Date: 7/25/2011
by: Matthew Payne

US NRC Reports and the Nation’s Leaders Yawn

So, the New York Times has a retrospective on the political fallout from Fukushima.  In it, it repeats a clearly mistaken evaluation of causality:

The odds are remote that this country will confront a similarly powerful earthquake followed by an even more destructive tsunami — the twin blows that disabled Fukushima.

...
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7/16/2011 'Unusual Event' Reported At San Onofre Plant

Source: Associated Press via San Franciso Chronicle
Date: 7/16/2011 16:31 PDT

(07-16) 16:31 PDT SAN ONOFRE, Calif. (AP) --

Utility officials say one of several redundant security systems used to monitor the grounds of Southern California's San Onofre nuclear plant stopped working for 45 minutes, triggering a declaration of the lowest level of emergency.

Gil Alexander, a spokesman for the plant's operator, Southern California Edison, said an "unusual event" was declared at 6:12 a.m.

Although the security system was restored within 45 minutes, the Orange County plant remained on unusual event status until 9:50 a.m.

Alexander said the failure was not related to nuclear operations and no part of the plant's perimeter was left unguarded.

Edison did not release details of the incident or say what kind of equipment was involved.

Officials were still trying to determine the cause of the failure Saturday afternoon.

Alexander said the unusual event declaration required immediate notification of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Editor's Note: The emergency has been cleared and the nuclear power plant is back in a non-emergency condition. Quoting the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) event notification report:

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* * * UPDATE FROM DANIEL CRUZ TO DONALD NORWOOD AT 1255 EDT ON 7/16/11 * * *

The licensee exited the Unusual Event at 0950 PDT. The plant security safeguards systems have been returned to normal. Contact the Headquarters Operations Officer for details.

The licensee notified State and local authorities and the NRC Resident Inspector.
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Map of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, not all nuclear power plants in the U.S. are included, only ones with known safety issues or recent unusual activity (that the editor knows about).

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