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Subject Fukushima 2 year anniversary - San Onofre & the questionable Economics of Nuke Power [debate]
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Original Message - see page 2 for the larger question of nuke power econ -

Re the 2 year anniversary of the Fukushima meltdowns and the fight over San Onofre going nuclear again, after being shut down for more than a year:

Monday marked the two year anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan. A massive earthquake caused a tsunami which flooded the power plant's back up system causing three reactors to melt down and thirteen months ago the Southern California San Onofre nuclear power plant was shut down due to issues with the facilities equipment.

Ramon Galindo reports on the the particulars of what went wrong at the San Onofre nuclear plant.



[link to www.youtube.com]

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The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been closed for about a year due to a leak that was detected in the steam generator tubes, but despite the wishes of the people living in the area to keep the plant closed, the utility company is pushing to bring the reactor back online... WITHOUT a safety hearing.

Arnie Gundersen, chief engineer for Fairewinds Energy Education, analyzes the situation:




[link to youtu.be]

Also, Fairewinds looks at how difficult it is for the public to meaningfully participate in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's licensing process. Arnie Gundersen was retained by Friends of the Earth to assess major problems at the San Onofre nuclear plant in California that have caused a year long shutdown. Arnie met with the NRC in January 2013 concerning his analysis of what went wrong and how the problems were foreseeable.

The difficulties Arnie encountered and the games the nuclear industry plays to prevent public participation:



[link to youtu.be]

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No Hearing on Safety, but on Rebates to Ratepayers?

The process of deciding whether and how to restart the disabled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station continues, with a pair of public hearings on ratepayer involvement scheduled for February 21 in Costa Mesa. The hearings, conducted by the California Public Utilities Commission, are intended to gather public sentiment on whether ratepayers should receive a rebate on the $1.1 billion they've paid to maintain San Onofre while it's been out of service.

continue reading, at the link, below:

[link to www.kcet.org]

More on Ratepayers footing the bill, here:



[link to youtu.be]

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Further reading - Seventy Years of Nuclear Fission, Thousands of Centuries of Nuclear Waste:

[link to www.truth-out.org]

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While I haven't fact-checked the following comment, I wouldn't be surprised if it was true:

"No American reactor has ever outproduced the cost of construction, start-up, maintenance, clean-up, and shut-down. These generating plants are PURELY a form of corporate subsidy paid to the radioactive mineral extractive [SIC - mining] industry..."

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