Over 1,300 Tubes Damaged at Calif. Nuclear Plant from Mysterious "Vibration"

[link to abcnews.go.com]

"More than 1,300 tubes that carry radioactive water inside the San Onofre nuclear plant in Southern California are so damaged that they will be taken out of service, the utility that runs the plant said Tuesday."

"At issue has been the integrity of tubing that snakes through the plant's four steam generators, which were installed in a multimillion-dollar makeover in 2009 and 2010."

"The company is drafting a plan under which the reactors would run at reduced power, at least for several months, because engineers believe that will solve a problem with vibration that the company believes has been causing unusual wear in the alloy tubing."

BUT THEY STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THE VIBRATION IS

"Activists viewed the new figures as another alarming sign following a tube break in January, which prompted Edison to shut down the Unit 3 reactor as a precaution. Traces of radiation escaped at the time, but officials said there was no danger to workers or neighbors.

Unit 2 was taken offline in January for routine maintenance, but investigators later confirmed accelerated wear on tubing in both units.

"It seems that these new steam generators are falling apart and Edison doesn't know why. It would be foolhardy to restart, even at reduced power, under the current circumstances," said Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear watchdog who lectures on nuclear policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz."

the weird thing about this story tho is that it comes accompanied with a video that announces "RADIATION FINALLY HUTS CALIFORNIA COAST"

the way they report this it makes one think that radiation is hitting california from fukashima for the very 1st time NOW.
i reloaded the page to see if the same video would again play and it did. i thought maybe the video was a mistake and something from long ago, but no, here it is, a video stating radiation is reaching california finally NOW from fukashima. telling everyoen not to go buy iodide pills and claiming there is none anyway, they are all sold out.


WEIRD.