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San Onofre Faces More Challenges on Multiple Fronts
Who is SORE? It's SONGS— April 11, 2012 3:10 p.m.
San Onofre Faces More Challenges on Multiple Fronts
Founder you need to educate yourself and stop trying to get eveyone into a panic. The reactors in Japan are boilers. It is an old and completely outdated plant. They do not have a large dome containment like the pressurized reactors at San Onofre. So even if there was a " melt down" it wouldn't be the same as took place in Japan. Those domes were made for a catostrophic event...to contain it, hence the word "containment". And it's SONGS not SORE...San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.— April 10, 2012 6:50 p.m.
San Onofre Faces More Challenges on Multiple Fronts
It's kinda of funny how there are so many speculations when most of you do not even understand how a reactor works. Both units at San O have replaced their generators. The lifespan of a generator is usually around 20 years. Most all plants in the US have replaced their generators with the exception of a few. There are 9000 tubes in a generator and at SONGS they are experiencing problems with wear from friction on a small number of the tubes. They can plug these tubes and still run safely. They are taking every precaution and are inspecting every single tube for wear. Everything is monitored in a nuclear reactor and regulated by the government. This is how they were able to see the leak immediately and take precautions to shut the reactor down in a controlled manner. The leak was within the reactor system and in no way a danger to the plant or the environment around the plant. A 1,000 MW coal-burning power plant could have an uncontrolled release of as much as 5.2 metric tons per year of uranium and 12.8 metric tons per year of thorium. In comparison, a 1,000 MW nuclear plant will generate about 30 short tons of high-level radioactive solid packed waste per year. It is estimated that during 1982, US coal burning released 155 times as much uncontrolled radioactivity into the atmosphere as the Three Mile Island incident. Coal burning plants are not regulated by the government. So should we build more coal plants and shut down all the nuclear plants???— April 9, 2012 6:49 a.m.