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Safety Team’s – Update 10-14-12, SCE’s Replacement
Steam Generator $680 Million Debacle
1. If SCE’s and MHI’s Engineers had used all the following
guidelines, they would have p…
SCE’s RESTART PR campaign is now in full swing, please tell your friends to find out what SanO insiders are saying about all the technical issues AGAINST RESTARTING SanO, before they attend the NRC Dana Pt. meeting on 10-09-12.
The complet…
Continue readingThe Nukes at San Onofre are mirror images of each another. To shutdown one, and startup the other, is suicidal.
If you look at the charts released by Southern California Edison (SCE) today, showing the tube wear in the replacement steam g…
Continue readingNews Release
News Release
For immediate release | September 13, 2012 Media Hotline ? 888.516.6397
For more information, contact:
Steven Greenlee | sgreenlee@caiso.com Stephanie McCorkle | smccorkle@caiso.com
California ISO prepares for another …
Continue readingThe DAB Safety Team is thankful to numerous
anonymous concerned SONGS Workers, who have provided factual information in the
interest of the Public Safety to us so that we could arrive at these “Reasonable
Conclusions?…
Daniel Hirsch, told KPBS San Onofre has 400 times as many damaged steam generator tubes as in a typical nuclear reactor with new steam generators. He said there were also 1,000 times as many indications of wear.
“These are very, very sick rea…
Continue readingHere are some questions for the Public and MSM Reporters to ask the NRC prior to the Public Meeting scheduled about restarting San Onofre on Oct. 9, 2012:
Has the Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (MHI) Root Cause Evaluation been completed and a…
Continue readingvia Fairewinds / September 1, 2012 / Fairewinds analysis of the triple meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi determined that other Japanese reactor sites were also in jeopardy because their cooling water systems were destroyed by the same tsunami. In this fil…
Continue readingTONIGHT San Clemente City Council is poised to make history yet again regarding the San Onofre nuclear power plant. They will consider calling for special hearings and investigations about SAFETY, COST and RELIABILITY in formal letters to the Nucle…
Continue readingConclusion
Because the identical failure modes exist in both San Onofre Unit 2 and 3 and because
the damage to both Units is especially excessive, when compared to the remainder of the
US nuclear power plants, it is Fairewinds’ opinion that both…
Conclusion
Because the identical failure modes exist in both San Onofre Unit 2 and 3 and because
the damage to both Units is especially excessive, when compared to the remainder of the
US nuclear power plants, it is Fairewinds’ opinion that both…
via DemocracyNow / July 6, 2012 / A Japanese parliamentary inquiry has concluded last year’s nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was “a profoundly man-made disaster — that could and should have been foreseen and …
Continue readingSan Onofre is located in an urban area on the coast south of San Clemente with millions of people, in a tsunami hazard zone, above intersecting active earthquake faults and has the worst safety record of all 104 reactors in the U.S. .
Aging Nuke P…
Continue readingvia Fairewinds.com / June 27, 2012 / CCTV’s Margaret Harrington hosts Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education. Arnie and Maggie discuss their recent travels to Italy to take part in and to view an opera on the Three Mile Island …
Continue readingReal People Work at the San Onofre Nuclear Waste Generating Station,
And 8 Million Real People Like You Live within the 50 Mile Zone.
I was driving south on Interstate 5 into San Diego County, past the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The…
San Onofre Surfers
Today, there’s no disputing Trestles
Surf Beach, and it’s iconic surf mentor;
San Onofre Surfing Beach (together
form 7-miles of perfect, wild & wonderful
world-class surfing waves, from San
Clemente CA’s southern border,
occ…
In conclusion, the NRC has stated that nuclear power plants like San Onofre cannot risk compromising critical safety systems and possible radiological contamination in an effort to return to operation before a thorough root cause analysis, modification…
Continue readingFukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Future
As part of a presentation in Kansai, Japan on May 12th 2012, Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education answers specific questions asked by symposium organizers regarding the condition of t…
Continue readingRally to Shut San Onofre / A short film by @AceHoffmanGuest speakers:Daniel Hirsch — Committee to Bridge the Gap Larry Agran – Irvine City Council Cathy Iwane – American who lived for 25 years in JapanOther Speakers Included: Gene Stone — M…
Continue readingGovernor Jerry Brown
C/O State Capitol, Suite 1173
Sacramento, CA 95814
Dear Governor
Brown,
We are looking
for your support to keep California’s two nuclear power plants SHUTDOWN FOR
GOOD. Here are just a few reasons why:
1. &nb…
Continue readingArnold Gundersen speaking tonight before the Irvine City Council, 6PM, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Irvine, CA 92606, USA
Mr Gundersen is an energy advisor with 40-years of nuclear power engineering experience. A former nuclear industry senior vice presid…
Continue readingSan Onofre, my local nuclear reactor, is completely shut down right now (like all but one reactor in Japan) and may never reopen. Why not? Because the steam generator tubes (made in Japan, by the way) clang into each other. Why does that happen? App…
Continue readingWe are now fundraising for the April 29 2nd Peaceful Protest at San Onofre state park campground. We are bringing Professor Daniel Hirsch from San Cruz CA down as our keynote speaker. To raise this money we are selling T-shirts in black that say “San…
Continue readingvia Fairewinds.com Arnie Gundersen at the Japan National Press Club from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo. The Japan National Press Club hosts Arnie Gundersen. Over 80 journalists were present where questions were asked regarding the nuclear disast…
Continue readingby Arnie Gundersen / Fairewinds.com / Feb 6, 2012 / New Containment Flaw Identified in the BWR Mark 1 from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo. Fairewinds shows that the nuclear industry’s plan to vent the containment at Fukushima Daiichi could …
Continue readingKevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear on the radiation leaks at San Onofre.
Did you know that 75% of Nuke plants leak radiation into the surrounding environment? Google it!
San Onofre: “It’s Just That Broken”
San Onofre Radiation Fallout Map
The …
Continue readingArnie Gundersen of Fairewinds analyzes cancer rates for young children near Fukushima using the National Academy of Science’s BEIR (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) VII Report. Based on BEIR VII, Fairewinds determines that at least one in e…
Continue readingTEPCO Believes Mission Accomplished & Regulators Allow Radioactive Dumping in Tokyo Bay from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo. Is the Japanese government and the IAEA protecting the nuclear industry and not the people of Japan by claiming that …
Continue reading“These reactors produce 50 years of electricity and half a million years of waste. It’s not a particularly good deal.” Danial Hirsch
On Oct. 11, 2011 a forum on the issue of San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) running past it’s deco…
Continue readingAt the mention of nuclear meltdown,
and its cataclysmic results (hello
Fukushima), the nuke industry’s
chorus erupts in unified denial,
“It can’t happen!” But it does happen.
In Japan and Russia, nukes’ tragic
opera has no end. Reality, televises…
via ENEnews.com / November 27, 2011 / The week began with several high-profile attacks on Christopher Busby, visiting professor at the University of Ulster’s school of biomedical sciences and scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiatio…
Continue readingvia Fairewinds.com / November 17, 2011 / Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it mean & why does it happen? from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. TEPCO recently discovered hydrogen buildups within the containment buildings in Fukushima Units 1, …
Continue readingvia Fairewinds.com / October 31, 2011 / Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. Washington, DC – October 31, 2011 – Today Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worchester Polytechnic Institute …
Continue readingvia YouTube user dahawaiianguy808 h/t AustralianCannonball
Continue readingDan Hirsch, Nuclear expert speaking to the People of San Clemente,
Could Fukushima happen here?
The answer is yes.
Special thanks to Ace Hoffman for this very important video!
Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zo…
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