Matt Whalen, San Clemente
As a resident of San Clemente, I received a notice from Southern California Edison with instructions on what to do in the event of an emergency at SONGS. This includes the following paragraph, “If you are directed to evacuate, please stay calm. Get in your car and drive away from the plant to a location outside the cities of San Clemente, Dana Point and San Juan Capistrano. Be sure to follow the directions of law enforcement officials as traffic patterns are subject to change under these circumstances.”
I can only think that whoever wrote this has never driven Southern California freeways under normal circumstances, has no understanding of human behavior in emergency situations and has no comprehension of the magnitude of the emergency that would require evacuations from these areas.
SoCal Edison, please don’t insult our collective intelligence with such asinine statements.
Edison does not have to worry about the evac as much as this– Shut down that leaky old spewing pile of death before alot of us get hurt. This is ridiculous at this point. It’s over. It was set to be shut down by next year anyway!
11-10 and the Register is reporting yet again new safety violations that lasted 27 years and problems with the generators. One issue after another. If that plant is fired up again, our health and certainly our property values are at risk.
The plant is an antique— it should have been shut down by now. It leaks radiation, it discharges radiation into the atmosphere and it is surrounded now by an above ground HUGE nuclear waste dump. It sits in a Tsunami zone, on an earthquake fault and next to a huge population center.
There is NO longitudinal study of cancer rates around the plant. We continue to live in ignorance and denial.
When will our city council at least take a symbolic and important stand to close the dangerous relic??????????????????????????