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San Onofre Faces More Challenges on Multiple Fronts
This message is from the Peace Resource Center of San Diego www.prcsd.org **URGENT!** Two City Council Meetings this week in North County re: San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Sorry for short notice, but things are happening fast on the San Onofre issue! Two Important actions about the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant will take place this week! We need people who live in Carlsbad and Solana Beach and surrounding areas to attend these two local city council meetings! The City of Irvine has voted to take a position opposing the continued operation of San Onofre. Activists are working to keep San Onofre closed have been attending City Council meetings in Carlsbad and Solana Beach urging their cities to also take a position. They need our support! 1. Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Attend the City of Carlsbad City Council meeting, 6 p.m. City of Carlsbad 1200 Carlsbad Village Drive Carlsbad, CA 92008 Activists/experts will speak during the Public Comment section asking for the city to put the item on their agenda and take a position. 2. Wednesday, April 11, 2012 Attend the City of Solana Beach City Council Meeting, 6 p.m. 635 S. HWY 101 Solana Beach, CA 92075 The City Council will discuss taking a position on San Onofre Item C1 on the Agenda; see Staff report and recommendation here: http://solanabeach.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?me… We want to extend this effort to other cities in San Diego County. If you are interested in working on this in your city, please contact Carol Jahnkow, [email protected]; 760-390-0775— April 10, 2012 11:17 a.m.
San Onofre Faces More Challenges on Multiple Fronts
I suggest that you learn much more about how TEPCO and the other Japanese Utilities have been caught "massaging their data" then perhaps you too will have reservations about believing their story about the cause of their triple meltdowns... Also, do you agree that SoCal can do without SORE's energy or do you dispute that also and if you do not, then why allow SORE to put SoCal at RISK for any reason?— April 9, 2012 9:02 a.m.
San Onofre Faces More Challenges on Multiple Fronts
What Nuclear Baloney... The Japanese thought their nuclear reactors were A-OK before 3/11/11 now they have a Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster to pay for... You claims about coal are for OLD plants and you can be sure that the new coal plants that Germany (who is leaving Nuclear behind) will be orders of magnitude cleaner! BTW: If Germany can phase out nuclear ASAP so can the USA... as an example they are now installing a wind turbine "farm in an area larger than Texas! + Speaking about TEXAS: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-04/picke… You better think about getting retrained...— April 9, 2012 8:54 a.m.
San Onofre Faces More Challenges on Multiple Fronts
RE: The true "cause" of the Fukushima Disaster: RE: Initial cause: TEPCO and the entire Nuclear Industry are DESPERATE to avoid the concept that an BIG EQ can start a meltdown because it puts EVERY land based Reactor at RISK of creating a Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster... Many believe that TEPCO "fiddled" with the 3/11/11 operators data (they have done this in the past) http://wp.me/p21p6a-Ws and http://enenews.com/?p=15466 just enough to make it appear that the Tsunami was the "cause" because most people Globally are not afraid of Tsunamis'... http://www.counterpunch.org/?p=32982 I think the Big Quake shock the reactor complex so hard that many critical piping connections failed and that the leakages of highly radioactive water actually started the meltdown process, which was completed when the power was lost to the cooling pumps, remember they ran out of cooling water and were in no position to pump sea water into the reactors... RE: Fuel Rod Storage Pools at Fukushima: From Mitsuhei Murata's letter to the UN link: http://enenews.com/?p=30009 snip I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude for your considerate letter dated 2 March, 2012. Your moral support for a United Nations Ethics Summit will remain a constant source of encouragement for my activities. Please allow me to pay a tribute to your great contribution to strengthen nuclear safety and security. The current Nuclear Summit in Seoul is no doubt greatly benefiting from the high-level meeting you convened last September. I was asked to make a statement at the public hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on March 23. I raised the crucial problem. of N0.4 reactor of Fukushima containing1535 fuel rods. It could be fatally damaged by continuing aftershocks. Moreover, 50 meters away from it exists a common cooling pool for 6 reactors containing 6375 fuel rods! It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of Japan and the whole world depends on NO.4 reactor. This is confirmed by most reliable experts like Dr. Arnie Gundersen or Dr. Fumiaki Koide.— April 8, 2012 7:58 a.m.
San Onofre Faces More Challenges on Multiple Fronts
Someone who is very interested in NOT having San Onofre, become the NEXT Fukushima, for any reason like one or more of these: Big Earth Quakes Big Tsunami's Big Human screw-ups Big Metal Materials failure Big Unknown Big Anything— April 8, 2012 7:37 a.m.
San Onofre Faces More Challenges on Multiple Fronts
Here are two of my favorites from the above website: Don't forget that initially SCE told everyone that this was no bid deal, then there was no leakage, then a insignificant amount leaked and then only a small leak and then just a tube or two then the NRC asked for more info because of PUBLIC pressure and now it comes out that it is a MAJOR Concern for all of SoCal... If this progression sounds familiar just remember that TEPCO in Japan did the very same thing when they had their Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster in Fukushima on 3/11/11... TEPCO and the entire Nuclear Industry is DESPERATE to avoid the concept that an BIG EQ can start a meltdown because it puts EVERY land based Reactor at RISK of creating a Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster... TEPCO "fiddled" with the 3/11/11 operators data just enough to make it appear that the Tsunami was the "cause" because most people Globally are not afraid of Tsunamis'... Sure the data shows they were adding "makeup" water; but ask yourself why was that extra water suddenly required in such massive amounts? The answer is MASSIVE RADIOACTIVE WATER LEAKAGE caused by the QUAKE! Think of all the weakened condenser tubes, weakened wiring piping penetrations, and old seam welds at supporting reinforcements all starting to fail at the same time because of the BIG ground movements caused by the EQ and the after shocks... We all know what happens when you shake up a soda can and then start to open it. Fukushima was caused by the failure of the reactor to withstand the ground movements caused by the huge EQ, which by the way, was built far beyond the spec's of ANY US reactors... What will happen when CA get the BIG One, better yet, can the USA afford a Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster? and **A Prediction!** I believe that the CURRENT PROBE into San Onofre will expose many more questionable tubes and also an ongoing coverup of safety related info that was concealed in order to sidestep NRC notifications. San Onofre has the worst safety record of all US reactors and it just makes sense that the Operator will be trying very hard to keep the lid on anything that draw attention to their reactor or it's operation. The NRC gave the Nuclear Industry a "PASS" on the tube wear issue before on San Onofre and many of the other reactors around the Country http://wp.me/p21p6a-77L BUT NOW They are realizing that they have a much bigger problem than they first "imagined"; metal erosion/weakness cannot be tolerated when the radioactive leakage is not only high in temperature and pressure but also high in amount of radiation! Would you use a dangerous leaking pressure pot day after day,... or would you be smart and replace it with something safer? Fragile tubes and a BIG EARTH QUAKE could makes a large number of those tubes all Fail AT ONCE; which is what I think happened in Fukushima!— April 7, 2012 2:36 p.m.
San Onofre Faces More Challenges on Multiple Fronts
I read a huge number of great comments about this in the San Clemente Times article: NRC: Power Plant Restart Hinges on Assurances of Safety Read more: San Clemente Times - Local News, Businesses, Classifieds, events, in the San Clemente, CA area. http://sanclementetimes.com/pages/full_story/push… **This is a much BIGGER safety issue than we have been told by CSE or the NRC...**— April 7, 2012 2:31 p.m.
City Releases Environmental Report For One Paseo in Carmel Valley
RE: "*a vision inspired by the community*." I see this as a transparent PR ploy to push massive development into an area that already is crammed full of DENSITY. This project will bring traffic congestion, unneeded office space and lots more housing to the entire Del Mar area, making that section of I-5 a larger nightmare than it is now. Notice their PR *pipe dream* image above; a large tree lined green space, a tiny amount of office space with only one and a half stories visible and only 4 cars on the street! If you believe that is what this project is all about then the tooth fairy will be coming real soon to make up for alll those small coins you received as a child... Ask questions like how many Low and Low Moderate income housing units are slated to be built and or how much the developer fees are and where will they be spent. This is a boondoggle project that will profit those in San Diego Government that approve it and leave all the locals with another new unneeded office complex that will only compete with the already existing office space, that is no where near filled, along I-5. Everyone that drives I-5, those that live in either Carmel Ranch and or Del Mar better ***wake up*** and see this Developer Pushed Density Project for what it is, a BIG MONEY maker for them in the short term and a massive reduction in the quality of lifestyle as you know it in the long term. **Does a 15-20% Drop in Residential Property Values make ANY sense?**— March 30, 2012 8:10 a.m.
Lincoln Club Wades into Chula Vista City Council Fray
Labor Council + Lincoln Council = More BU$INE$$ As Usual in CV... If you are in support of the way CV and the $outh Bay have been ***RUN***, then no problem; otherwise you better start mobilizing a huge turn out to guarantee a **CHANGE** that you want to live with in the future...— March 30, 2012 7:38 a.m.
San Onofre Unit 3 Reactor to Remain Shut Down "Indefinitely"
Forget ever using the name SONGS; call San Onofre what it is SORE, San Onofre Reactor Emergency, a pair of nuclear reactors that have the WORST safety record of any US reactors; why should we allow the nuclear industry to "sweeten" image that by using a fluffy name? The truth is that everyone in SoCal has just been very LUCKY that Nature has not "yet" shaken San Onofre hard enough to cause a major meltdown or worse! Consider Japan as a test case; they now have a Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster that is affecting their entire Country; how would California (and or the USA) pay for a similar event? Where would people relocate to and what would they do for housing, since their home owners insurance has a nuclear exclusion? If this happened at San Onofre, the "coastal" real estate loses alone would be more than a trillion dollars and remember the rest of the "HEARTLAND" of the USA is downwind.— March 27, 2012 3:49 p.m.