Tag Archives: San Onofre

Final Shipment of Original Steam Generator to Utah to Begin via Business Wire

Posted on 2012/12/04 by norma field

WHAT: Southern California Edison (SCE) is about to begin shipping the last of four retired steam generator lower assemblies from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station via truck to a disposal site in Clive, Utah. As at the plant, safety … Continue reading →

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UPDATE: Feds deny group’s request for San Onofre nuclear plant license amendment via South California Public Radio

Posted on 2012/11/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

UPDATE 4:45 p.m.: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has denied an environmental group’s request to amend San Onofre’s license. The NRC is deciding whether it’s safe to restart San Onofre’s Unit 2 reactor at reduced power. But the Washington D.C.-based group Friends … Continue reading →

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San Onofre Equipment the Weight of a 747 to Be Hauled on Local Freeways via Carlsbad Patch

Posted on 2012/11/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Southern California Edison says slightly radioactive nuclear equipment is going to Clive, Utah […] Two new gigantic steam generators were manufactured in Japan and barged to Oceanside when the project started. They were hauled up the beaches of Camp Pendleton to … Continue reading →

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Hydrogen leak at San Onofre poses no risk, Edison says [Updated] via the LA Times

Posted on 2012/10/25 by norma field

Workers discovered a hydrogen leak in a pipe on the non-nuclear side of the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant over the weekend. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a non-emergency notice of the leak on Sunday, after plant operator Southern … Continue reading →

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Japan’s Long Atomic Sayonara via Nukefree.org

Posted on 2012/09/17 by norma field

By Harvey Wasserman As demonstrators from the Coalition Against Nukes prepare to descend on Washington DC and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the world’s third-largest economy has taken a landmark step toward Solartopia. A pro-nuclear Japanese government has announced it will … Continue reading →

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San Onofre whistle-blowers less protected than others in California via The LA Times

Posted on 2012/08/24 by norma field

An obscure legal doctrine leaves whistle-blowers at the San Onofre nuclear plant with less legal protection than other California workers, including employees at the state’s only other nuclear plant. San Onofre is majority owned and operated by Southern California Edison, … Continue reading →

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If San Onofre nuclear plant is restarted, who pays? via Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2012/08/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The San Onofre nuclear plant must first be deemed safe to restart. But with costs already mounting, it’s unclear who would foot the bill. Nearly seven months after the San Onofre nuclear power plant was closed because of a leak, … Continue reading →

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Fed regulators slap troubled San Onofre plant for security violation via Southern California Public Radio

Posted on 2012/08/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Federal regulators have slapped the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant with a violation for a lapse in plant security. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said plant operator Southern California Edison failed to develop procedures to monitor electronic devices related to … Continue reading →

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Feds: California nuclear plant didn’t mislead regulators via The Christian Science Monitor

Posted on 2012/07/19 by Tomomi Yamaguchi

In their report, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) found that Southern California Edison had not mislead regulators about issues at their troubled San Onofre power plant, located between San Diego and Los Angeles, California. Federal regulators Thursday concluded that the … Continue reading →

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Morning Report: The Major Outage at San Onofre via Voice of San Diego

Posted on 2012/07/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

We’ve become pretty used to the existence of the San Onofre nuclear power plant up near the Orange County border, and now we’re becoming used to it just sitting there not doing anything. Since January, the plant has been shut … Continue reading →

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