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San Onofre is Dead and So Is Nuclear Power

Sun, 2013-06-09 18:23 — Gina Angiola

by Harvey Wasserman

Published Friday, June 7, 2013 by Common Dreams

From his California beach house at San Clemente, Richard Nixon once watched three reactors rise at nearby San Onofre. As of June 7, 2013, all three are permanently shut.

It’s a monumental victory for grassroots activism. it marks an epic transition in how we get our energy.

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California Nuclear Plant Shut Indefinitely Amid Hunt to Find Cause of Problems

Sat, 2012-04-07 08:30 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Janine Rees

The power plant has been shut down since this winter, when a small amount of radioactive gas escaped.

CNN - April 6, 2012
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Anti-nuclear activists warn of a potential environmental catastrophe
  • The San Onofre nuclear plant has been shut down since radioactive gas escaped
  • Officials have said there's no harm to the public health, but can't identify problem's cause
  • The head of the NRC says the plant won't restart until a cause and plan is put forward

(CNN) -- A large Southern California nuclear plant is out of commission indefinitely, and will remain so until there is an understanding of what caused problems at two of its generators and an effective plan to address the issues, the nation's top nuclear regulator said Friday.

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Canopy-Forming Kelps as California’s Coastal Dosimeter: 131I from Damaged Japanese Reactor Measured in Macrocystis Pyrifera

Sat, 2012-03-31 22:25 — Kathy Gilbeaux

                            This study indicates Kelp could act as a coastal dosimeter for California.

                  

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Cracked Steam Generator Tubes at San Onofre

Fri, 2012-03-30 22:49 — Kathy Gilbeaux

by Dave Lochbaum - allthingsnuclear.org - March 27, 2012

Leaks in San Onofre Unit 3 and Unit 2:

On February 18, 2011, operators restarted the Unit 3 pressurized water reactor (PWR) at the San Onofre nuclear plant in southern California following its sixteenth refueling outage. During the outage, workers replaced both of the reactor’s steam generators, which are large cylindrical containers that are partially filled with water.

At 3:05 pm on January 31, 2012 – less than a year later – radiation alarms alerted the control room operators that water was leaking through one or more of the tubes in one of the steam generators on Unit 3. They estimated the leak rate to be 82 gallons per day.

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