Petition – NUCLEAR-WASTE near the BEACH? You heard right... #SanOnofre

In October of 2015, the California Coastal Commission, an entity meant to keep our coasts and ocean safe, granted Southern California Edison (SCE) a permit to bury their Nuclear-Waste on a stretch of beach between Oceanside and San Clemente (in San Diego and Orange Counties). This area is located on two fault lines, and it is not a question of IF there will be a major earthquake in this region but WHEN...

The probability of a major earthquake in this area is inevitable and may be sooner than one may think https://sanonofresafety.org/earthquake-and-tsunami-risks/. As you likely know, radioactive-waste is deadly to humans and wildlife... including marine-life in the ocean, where the deadly-plume would not be contained. Much of Southern California would become uninhabitable and beach-towns would become ghost-towns up and down the coast (including Mexico). NUCLEAR-WASTE IS TOXIC FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS, and it would not discriminate between the wealthy, healthy, sick and poor. Everyone would be affected! 

Earthquakes are not the only concern. Public Watchdogs, a non-profit organization in San Diego, says the containers in which the nuclear-waste would be stored are only guaranteed for 25 years. However, failure has occurred in as little as 17 years in similar containers (and environment) https://sanonofresafety.org/nuclear-waste/. Although considering the fault system, an earthquake could rupture them sooner.

In a press release by Public Watchdogs they state,“On January 13, 2018, Southern California Edison will bury the radioactive (waste) equivalent of 700 nuclear warheads on the beach at San Onofre State Beach Park within 108 feet of the water. Each of the 75 waste containers holds more radiation than what was released at Chernobyl. When it is completed, it will be the world’s largest beachfront nuclear waste dump.”

more / SIGN NOW: Petition – NUCLEAR-WASTE near the BEACH? You heard right... Change.org

Petition REVOKE Nuclear Waste Storage Permit at #SanOnofre

Your signature on this Petition will send a message, loud and clear to the California Coastal Commission that the permit they approved for Edison was flawed and must be revoked. The Special Conditions in the Coastal Permit that are twenty years out are well intended, but should have been required from the start. Other countries currently use nuclear waste storage systems that could meet those reasonable requirements today. Their containers can be inspected, repaired, maintained, monitored and transported without cracks. The thin canisters being used at San Onofre have none of these attributes because they were only intended for temporary storage.

SIGN NOW: Petition REVOKE Nuclear Waste Storage Permit at San Onofre

Oceanside Public Meeting on Beach Nuclear Waste Facility ~ San Onofre

Citizens Oversight sued the Coastal Commission and now we are entering settlement discussions. Although settlement discussions are required to be confidential to allow frank discussion, we want to be open to public input on the matter of where nuclear waste from San Onofre will be stored. This meeting, at the Oceanside City Council Chambers on May 4, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm, will be transcribed and included in the public file for the lawsuit. Until now, we, the public, have had almost no opportunity to weigh in on this project, with only two minutes provided at the California Coastal Commission meeting in Long Beach in October, 2015. Here, we have an opportunity to stop 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste from being stored only 100 feet from the ocean and only inches over the high-tide salt water mark. Recently updated research has determined that there is a geologic fault capable of creating a 7.4 magnitude earthquake nearby. By leaving this nuclear waste so near the coastline, we provide an easy target for a boat or a drone. If an accident or an intentional act or typical corrosion causes radioactive leakage, the resulting chain reaction could cause the California coast to become radioactive and uninhabitable to humans, and to all life, for up to 250,000 years...in other words, forever. *You* can save the ocean! *You* can save life! Show up to this meeting. Speak your mind.

More information about the case is at this link:
copswiki.org/Common/StopNukeDump

Oceanside Public Meeting on Beach Nuclear Waste Facility (Facebook event page)

State looking at criminal charges against former CPUC president - SFGate

...considering criminal charges against Michael Peevey, former president of the California Public Utilities Commission, for his private meeting with a Southern California Edison Co. executive about financial arrangements for shutting down the San Onofre nuclear plant...

READ: State looking at criminal charges against former CPUC president - SFGate

NRC TO CONSIDER SAN ONOFRE CITIZENS PANEL

Public meeting Thursday focused on safety during decommissioning of nuclear plant

Oceanside — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will consider a request to form a citizens oversight panel to help make sure the San Onofre nuclear power plant is dismantled safely and cost-effectively, a commission official said at a public meeting in Carlsbad on Thursday evening.

The request came from Gene Stone, a San Clemente resident who represented a coalition of citizen and environmental groups who want to monitor the nuclear plant’s decontamination and removal, an elaborate process called “decommissioning” that could take up to 60 years to complete and cost at least $4.1 billion.

Involving a citizens panel would require approval from the federal agency’s appointed commissioners, but staff members would “take it under consideration,” said Larry W. Camper, director of the agency’s division of waste management and environmental protection.

Utility officials decided in June to keep San Onofre shut down permanently, after a leak of radioactive steam last year exposed problems with generators that were upgraded in 2010 and 2011.

At Thursday’s briefing, NRC officials walked through their oversight procedures and took questions from the public.

Safety occupied much of the discussion. Officials said that used nuclear fuel will be stored in a refrigerated pool for five to seven years until it has cooled sufficiently.

Then radioactive material will be moved to steel-reinforced, concrete casks with 5-foot-thick roof caps and 4-foot walls that are designed to withstand an earthquake or other disasters. Such casks have been in use at San Onofre since 2003.

Officials also said the casks can be immersed without problems in up to 50 feet of water during a flood. They estimated the biggest potential tsunami wave at 27 feet, and there’s a 28-foot-high sea wall between the Pacific Ocean and the fuel storage area, which is situated about 20 feet above sea level.

Flooding from a 2011 tsunami caused the meltdown of three nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, when pumps failed to keep cooling water flowing.

Local residents and activists have been skeptical of such safety assurances regarding San Onofre.

Stone said the plant’s decommissioning was an important milestone for the “old and dangerous nuclear fleet” in the U.S.

“We’d like to be an active part of the safety of this process,” he said.

In response to a question posed by the coalition, NRC officials said that San Onofre has used a highly radioactive fuel known as “high burn-up” that will take longer to cool before removal to dry casks. Officials also acknowledged that there is no way to monitor the behavior of spent fuel inside the casks, but the agency is studying the issue.

Tearing down the plant and restoring the site will be supervised by Southern California Edison, the plant’s operator and 80 percent owner. San Diego Gas & Electric owns 20 percent.

Edison’s lease with the Navy calls for San Onofre’s site along Interstate 5 in Camp Pendleton to be restored to pristine, “green-field” condition.

Costs are estimated at roughly $4.1 billion. As of Dec. 31, 2012, the utilities had collected $3.85 billion in a trust account from a charge on customer bills, officials said at the meeting.

Edison has until June 2015 to present an initial decommissioning plan to the NRC.

NRC TO CONSIDER SAN ONOFRE CITIZENS PANEL | UTSanDiego.com

The lethal legacy of nuclear waste at San Onofre | FOE

Friends of the Earth: Edison must quickly move spent reactor fuel from pools to dry casks

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The legacy of 44 years of operating the San Onofre reactors is a nuclear waste dump containing one of the largest concentrations of radioactivity in the United States, says a new study from Friends of the Earth, which warns that the spent fuel on site poses a major radiological hazard in the event of an accident. The report urges Southern California Edison to as soon as possible move hundreds of thousands of spent fuel rods from cooling pools to much safer dry-cask storage. 

Nearly 1,100 tons of the highly radioactive spent fuel rods, discharged from the reactor cores, remain in vulnerable water filled cooling pools. The amount of radioactivity in the spent fuel rods now stored in the cooling pools is nearly three times more than is stored in the high-level radioactive waste tanks at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford site in Washington, considered the most contaminated site in the nation. 

The report is by Robert Alvarez, former senior advisor to the Secretary at the Department of Energy and an expert on the growing volume of waste piling up at reactors across the nation. It details the vulnerability of cooling pools, which could accidentally drain, leading to the release of millions of curies of radioactivity. The report says Edison should move as quickly as possible to transfer the spent fuel from the cooling pools to dry-cask storage. Dry casks, while not risk-free, reduce the risk of major release of radioactivity into the environment. Most of the fuel in the San Onofre pools could be moved to cask storage within 5-7 years.

“The major risk from the reactors at San Onofre is over, but the radiation hazard from the pool-stored waste is even greater," said Alvarez. "As we saw at Fukushima, spent fuel in pools that were never designed for such concentrated and prolonged storage is highly vulnerable. Within six hours of losing water in the pools, more radioactive cesium could be released than was released in all nuclear weapons tests. The radiation dose to the thousands living within ten miles of the plant would be in the lethal range."

Nuclear waste from spent fuel has been generated by all of the nation's commercial nuclear reactors, with an estimated 70,000 tons currently in vulnerable pools and dry casks. The nuclear industry is currently lobbying Congress to pass legislation that would establish regional storage facilities for spent fuel at Department of Energy sites, such as the Savannah River site in South Carolina, as well as in New Mexico and Idaho. Legislation is expected to be introduced shortly that would attempt to push through such proposals with no opportunity for local public citizen involvement. Friends of the Earth, along with other national and local organizations, is opposed to such legislation as it would not solve the waste problem but would lead to greater risks from nuclear transports and would be the effective dumping of waste on already highly contaminated sites.

“San Onofre is a clear example of what happens when the nuclear industry is allowed to ignore the waste problem," said Shaun Burnie, senior nuclear campaigner at Friends of the Earth. "The industry has created a highly dangerous situation for tens of millions of people not just in Southern California but across the nation. Proposals to move this waste around the country are an industry-driven scam to create the illusion that they've found a solution. There is no risk-free solution, but the best available option is for Edison and the rest of the nuclear industry to move as rapidly as possible to cask storage on the reactor site.” 

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Contact:
Shaun Burnie, (202) 701-6962, sburnie@foe.org
Bill Walker, (510) 759-9911

News release: The lethal legacy of nuclear waste at San Onofre | Friends of the Earth

San Onofre Shut Down! Activists Hold Press Conference

San Onofre Shut Down!
Activists Hold Press Conference

VICTORY for the people of Southern California!

GOOD-BYE SONGS!

Friday, June 7, 2013 San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)
Anti-Nuclear Activists hold a press conference in response to Southern California Edison announcing plans to retire the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

Anti-nuclear activists hold press conference.

San Onofre Shut Down Activist Press Conference - YouTube Published on Jun 7, 2013

Friday, June 7, 2013 San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)
Anti-Nuclear Activists hold a press conference in response to Southern California Edison announcing plans to retire the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

Speakers include:
0:40 Ray Lutz, Citizens Oversight Projects (COPS)
3:00 Carol Jahnkow, Peace Resource Center San Diego
4:20 Gary Headrick, San Clemente Green
6:20 Donna Gilmore, San Onofre Safety
9:30 Arnold "Arnie" Gundersen, chief engineer of energy consulting company Fairewinds Associates, an anti-nuclear campaigner, and a former nuclear power industry executive.
11:10 Gene Stone, Residents Organized for a Safe Environment (R.O.S.E.)
12:30 Cathy Iwane
15:30 Crystal Coleman
19:30 Lynn Harris Hicks, local resident and activist
22:20 Joe Holtzman

PHOTOS & VIDEO > Eye Paint Art: San Onofre Shut Down! Activists Hold Press Conference | Eye Paint Art: Art and Activism of Syd Stevens

Video and Photography by Syd Stevens.

LINKS

Citizens' Oversight Projects

http://www.citizensoversight.org/

Peace Resource Center
http://prcsd.org/

Friends of the Earth
http://www.foe.org/

San Clemente Green
http://www.sanclementegreen.org/

San Onofre Safety (SOS)
http://sanonofresafety.org/

Nuclear Free California
http://www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/

Fairewinds Energy Education
http://fairewinds.org/

Residents Organized for a Safe Environment
http://residentsorganizedforasafeenvironment.wordpress.com/ 

thanks Syd!

Victory: Edison closes San Onofre for good | Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth Press Release | June 7, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Here is a statement from Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth, on the announced closure of the San Onofre Generating Station.

“This is very good news for the people of Southern California. We have long said that these reactors are too dangerous to operate and now Edison has agreed. The people of California now have the opportunity to move away from the failed promise of dirty and dangerous nuclear power and replace it with the safe and clean energy provided by the sun and the wind.”

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Contact:
Damon Moglen, (202) 222-0708, dmoglen@foe.org
Shaun Burnie, (202) 701-6962, sburnie@foe.org

Updates: news releases and updates - Victory: Edison closes San Onofre for good | Friends of the Earth

"We have concluded that the continuing uncertainty about when or if [the plant] might return to service was not good for our customers, our investors, or the need to plan for our region’s long-term electricity needs," said Ted Craver, chairman and chief executive of Edison International, parent company of SCE.

Edison will shut down the San Onofre nuclear plant for good - latimes.com

San Onofre: Pressed by Calif. regulators, Edison forced to release another damning letter | Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth: More proof utility sought to mislead NRC

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Under pressure from the California Public Utility Commission, Southern California Edison has released to Friends of the Earth another suppressed and highly incriminating internal document, showing that the utility knew eight years ago of serious flaws in the design of replacement steam generators for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The letter directly contradicts written testimony Edison gave in January to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The 2005 letter from then-Edison Vice President Dwight Nunn was released Tuesday, after the state PUC sharply questioned why Edison had not provided it as part of the PUC’s investigation of failure of the San Onofre reactors, shut down since January 2012 after a leak of radioactive steam. The day before, Boxer released a 2004 letter from Nunn proving that Edison knew that the flawed generators were not “like-for-like” with the ones they replaced, but failed to reveal that to the NRC in order to expedite approval from the NRC. 

“This new letter shows conclusively that in 2005 Edison was aware that its defective design could lead to vibration and cracking of steam generator tubes,” said Damon Moglen, Friends of the Earth’s climate and energy program director. “While Edison knew this could lead to what the earlier letter calls ‘a disastrous outcome,’ they didn’t fix the problem, they didn’t tell the NRC then and denied it again in testimony this year. This is a scandal of the highest order: Edison prioritized its construction schedule and profits and endangered the lives and livelihoods of millions of Southern Californians.”

In the June 16, 2005 letter, Nunn writes to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which manufactured the replacement steam generators to Edison’s specifications, about the “probability” that the design could cause the tubes to vibrate and crack. Despite later suggestions from a joint Mitsubishi/Edison design team to fix the problem prior to construction, the contractors rejected such changes because they would have triggered a lengthy NRC license amendment review, including public hearings. In January, in written testimony to the NRC in a case brought by Friends of the Earth, Edison claimed that the problem “was not known at the time.” 

S. David Freeman, former head of the Tennessee Valley Authority and of several nuclear utilities, said Edison knew it was taking a risk.

“With these revelations, it’s clear that Edison was conducting an experiment all along,” said Freeman, senior advisor to Friends of the Earth. “They were operating reactors with equipment that they knew had major problems. That’s unforgivable. 

“Edison gambled that additional safety measures were not needed when they gave the highest priority not to safety but speed of construction. Of course they didn't know for sure that the equipment would fail, but they did know that they were taking a risk and they lost on their gamble. Gambling with the safety of a nuclear plant is not acceptable and an egregious misuse of ratepayer’s money.” 

The mounting revelations of Edison’s deception dash the utility’s request to restart San Onofre rector Unit 2 this summer, said Moglen. “The NRC must make sure these reactors are not restarted with this damaged equipment, and the PUC must make sure no ratepayer money is spent to operate, let alone restart, this failed plant,” he said.

After Senator Boxer released the 2004 letter yesterday, the California PUC issued a statement asking “whether Edison had a duty to disclose the letters earlier.” PUC Executive Director Paul Clanon said the Commission “need(s) to investigate whether Edison took unnecessary risks, or tried to evade regulatory oversight.“ Edison quickly released the 2005 letter, along with other suppressed internal documents (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) that may hold more revelations. Friends of the Earth is currently evaluating the remaining documents. 

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Contact:
Damon Moglen, (202) 222-0708, dmoglen@foe.org
Adam Russell, (202) 222-0722, arussell@foe.org

Updates: news releases and updates - San Onofre: Pressed by Calif. regulators, Edison forced to release another damning letter | Friends of the Earth

San Onofre: Internal letter reveals Edison knew of defects at crippled reactors but misled federal regulators to get expedited license

Friends of the Earth: "Restart is dead"

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Barbara Boxer has released a private 2004 letter from Southern California Edison that reveals the utility knew of major problems in its radically redesigned replacement steam generators at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station that could lead to a “disastrous outcome,” but the company knowingly misrepresented its failed design as a “like-for-like” replacement to sidestep a more thorough license review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

The leaked letter confirms accusations of the nuclear watchdog group Friends of the Earth. Its release, said the group, means Edison’s restart plan is dead. 

“This letter from Edison management is truly shocking,” said Damon Moglen, climate and energy director for Friends of the Earth. “It shows definitively that Edison was more concerned with keeping to a construction schedule and making money than with assuring safe operation of their reactors. It raises serious questions about their honesty and about the NRC’s handling of the San Onofre license. 

“The restart of San Onofre reactors is now off the table. No one can possibly argue for the further operation of these crippled reactors when such an experiment places the lives and livelihoods of millions of Southern Californians at risk.”

The letter, which Boxer released to the Associated Press, was sent by Edison Vice President Dwight Nunn to his counterpart, General Manager Akira Sawa, at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which fabricated the replacement steam generators according to Edison’s specifications. The letter states that serious problems with the replacement steam generators could lead to “unacceptable consequences (e.g. tube wear and eventually tube plugging). This would be a disastrous outcome for both of us ...”    

In addition, the letter reveals that Edison was fully aware that the new generators, which failed in less than two years and caused a release of radiation, was not a like-for-like replacement despite their assurances to federal and state regulators. Edison’s Nunn writes:  “Consequently, the design of the new steam generators is currently proceeding using the existing steam generator seismic response based on a like-for-like replacement concept (although the old and new steam generators will be similar in many respects they aren’t like-for-like replacements).”

Sen. Boxer said that she believes “Edison intentionally misled the public and regulators” and is providing the correspondence to “federal and state officials, including the U.S. Department of Justice so they can determine whether Edison engaged in willful wrongdoing.”

Release of the letter follows a May 13 ruling by the NRC’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board in which the three-judge panel unanimously ruled that  Edison’s plans to restart the damaged reactors would be  an “experiment” for which they had inadequate experience and which would be outside both their technical specifications and licensing requirements.

“Friends of the Earth accused them, the ASLB judged them and now Edison has confessed,” said Dave Freeman, former head of the federal Tennessee Valley Authority and senior advisor to Friends of the Earth. “The San Onofre restart plan is now deader than a doornail. It’s over.”

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Contact: 
Damon Moglen, (202) 222-0708, dmoglen@foe.org
Shaun Burnie, (202) 701-6962, sburnie@foe.org

News releases: San Onofre: Internal letter reveals Edison knew of defects at crippled reactors but misled federal regulators to get expedited license  | Friends of the Earth

Sen. Boxer suggests Edison 'misled' public on San Onofre plant - latimes.com

A letter sent by a Southern California Edison executive in 2004 shows the company was concerned about the possibility of design flaws in replacement steam generators manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries that could lead to the type of "disastrous" equipment problems that ultimately led to the San Onofre nuclear plant's yearlong shutdown.

The letter was released by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who argued that the letter shows that Edison may have misled federal regulators about the extent of design changes in the new steam generators.

Boxer called for the U.S. Justice Department to investigate whether there was wrongdoing by Edison. TheU.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's office of investigations is already probing whether Edison gave the agency complete and accurate information about the steam generators, and the NRC's office of inspector general is also investigating.

The nuclear facility was shut down more than a year ago after a steam generator tube sprung a leak and released a small amount of radioactive steam.

Boxer pointed to a section in the letter that says, "although the old and new steam generators will be similar in many respects, they aren't like-for-like replacements."

There has been an ongoing dispute between Edison and opponents of the nuclear facility about the extent of the design changes between the new and old steam generators. Environmental group Friends of the Earth has asserted that many of the design changes should have prompted a license amendment, which would potentially involve a lengthy public hearing process, and that Edison deliberately sidestepped that process.

“This correspondence leads me to believe that Edison intentionally misled the public and regulators in order to avoid a full safety review and public hearing in connection with its redesign of the plant," Boxer said in a statement.

"... Given this new information, it is clear to me that in order for this nuclear plant to even be considered for a restart in the future all investigations must be completed and a full license amendment and public hearing process must be required..."

more > Sen. Boxer suggests Edison 'misled' public on San Onofre plant - latimes.com

San Onofre: Friends of the Earth to NRC -- Operating unsafe reactor as a nuclear experiment is not an option

Posted May. 24, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell

Motion calls for convening hearing panel on license amendments

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friends of the Earth has filed a motion with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requesting that a Licensing Board be convened to review license amendments that are required for Southern California Edison’s crippled San Onofre reactors, and provide an opportunity for an adjudicatory public hearing before any decision on restart. 

The motion calls on the NRC to implement the decision of its own Atomic Safety Licensing Board,which ruled last week that the current process for evaluating and approving restart of the San Onofre reactor Unit 2 is a de facto license amendment proceeding. The ASLB ruled that without making formal changes in San Onofre's license to address major safety issues Edison would be in violation of NRC regulations. The licensing board also ruled that a public hearing should be held prior to any decision on a new license.

Friends of the Earth’s motion, filed jointly with the Natural Resources Defense Council, calls on the NRC to convene an ASLB panel to preside over an adjudicatory license amendment proceeding. If the motion is accepted by the NRC, it would require Edison to submit a new license amendment that addresses unresolved safety issues. It would also consolidate the existing and newly required license amendment into one proceeding. 

“The ASLB was very clear that operating San Onofre in its present uniquely damaged state would be an ‘experiment’ and outside its safety license requirements. Our motion makes clear to the NRC that moving forward on the current plan without further license amendments is not an option for them or Edison,” said Kendra Ulrich, nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth.

“It’s not that complicated,” Ulrich continued. “An unprecedented safety flaw is found at a nuclear reactor  located in a highly active earthquake zone, and the agency’s own judicial safety board says it’s not legal to operate. The ASLB’s order confirms that all the major safety issues that Edison and the NRC have failed to acknowledge, never mind resolve, must be considered by a full license amendment process with an adjudicatory public hearing prior to restart.”

Established by the NRC Commissioners in late 2012 to hear a case brought by Friends of the Earth, the ASLB ruled last week that the current proposal from Edison to restart the reactor was an “experiment” with a reactor that had suffered “unique” phenomenon of steam generator tube damage. Edison has provided no data to prove that it can operate San Onofre without further damage -- in fact, its own consultants acknowledge that steam tubes will continue to incur further damage even if the reactor operates at only 70 percent power. Last week nuclear engineers for Friends of the Earth provided evidence to the NRC that operating San Onofre will not only lead to further tube damage and failure but risk a major nuclear accident potentially affecting the lives of millions of people in Southern California.

Both the NRC and Edison in all of their assessments and proceedings have failed to address and resolve important safety issues. These include the vulnerability of the San Onofre steam generators and the nuclear reactor to seismic impact, which could lead to a significant accident and radiation dosage for the public. San Onofre lies within 50 miles of 8.7 million people in Southern California. 

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Contact:
Kendra Ulrich, (216) 571-7340, kulrich@foe.org
Shaun Burnie, (202) 251-1862, sburnie@foe.org

San Onofre: Friends of the Earth to NRC -- Operating unsafe reactor as a nuclear experiment is not an option | News releases

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Star Trek Spoof Made Inside San Onofre Nuke Plant | Decommission San Onofre

SAN DIEGO - Team 10 obtained an internal video showing senior management at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) dressed as Star Trek characters inside the plant's training simulator.

Southern California Edison (SCE), owners of the plant, confirm the video was made in 2010. The production occurred at roughly the same time plans were in motion to replace steam generators at SONGS. Those generators have been shut down since January 2012 following a radiation leak.

The video, called "SONGS Trek", features former chief nuclear officer Ross Ridenoure. He plays Captain Kirk.  Ridenoure no longer works at SONGS... 

more > 10News - 'SONGS Trek' - a Star Trek spoof video made inside San Onofre - 10News.com - Team 10 Investigates

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   @r_cherwink @EnviroNewsTV Thought you'd want to see - Star Trek spoof shot in San Onofre nuclear plant: http://bit.ly/119OZc6  Watch at 11p

   
   
   

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      Enviro News ‏@EnviroNewsTV22h

      @10News @r_cherwink It seems quite entertaining. Would you mind tweeting the follow up story to us with the video? We will RT @EnviroNewsTV

--- Decommission San Onofre: Team 10 obtained an internal video showing senior management at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) dress as Star Trek characters inside the plant's training simulator. Southern California Edison (SCE), owners of the plant, confirm the video was made in 2010. The video is titled, 'SONGS Trek'. It features former chief nuclear officer Ross Ridenoure, who plays Captain Kirk. Ridenoure no longer works for SCE. "So many safety hazards lieutenants, are you prepared to get us out of our current situation?" Ridenour asks in the video. People who live in California have been asking that same question about the leaky old San Onofre nuke for years.   Decommission San Onofre. 

Star Trek Spoof Made Inside San Onofre Nuke Plant | Decommission San Onofre