By Jim Shilander
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced the creation of a special San Onofre Review Panel, which will oversee Southern California Edison’s proposed restart plan.
The panel includes Art Howell, the deputy regional administrator for Region IV, which oversees SONGS and other plants in the southwest. Howell has been a vocal presence at a number of public meetings on technical issues with Edison personnel. Other members of the body include members of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation and the senior resident inspector of SONGS. No Edison officials are on the panel, nor are there any members of the general public.
WHAT’S NEXT: The panel will be responsible for coordinating public meetings with Edison, as well as providing a recommendation to senior NRC officials as to whether to approve the restart of Unit 2. The NRC has publicly stated that a restart will not be permitted until there is assurance that the plant can be operated safely.
NRC Creates SONGS Restart Task Force
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SONGS will never be safe, because traffic flows in the event of a worse case accident will be fatally impeded. No flows will go toward San Diego because they go past SONGS. Remaining flows will be non-existent, simply because up to seven million people trying to escape will clog everything. Think, for instance, if schools are session, and mothers and fathers are trying to get to their kids. My local safety brochure depicts traffic flows as if they will be normal and everyone will live happily ever after. Those depictions are lies, in my opinion, and any effective studies of events tied to potential SONGS events will expose them. Further, in my opinion the efforts of those who released the safety brochure must know that the data are flawed, and released the brochure anyway. Someone please investigate, identify those who have failed us, and treat them accordingly.