By Eric Heinz
In a June 4 press release from Southern California Edison, Thomas Palmisano, vice president of the SONGS decommissioning and chief nuclear officer, stated the Nuclear Regulation Commission had loosened its grip on some of the mandates for San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted Southern California Edison’s request to alter the emergency preparedness plan for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to reflect the plant’s decommissioning status,” an NRC press release stated. “As a result, there will not be a 10-mile emergency planning zone identified in the license for SONGS. The plant will maintain an onsite emergency plan and response capabilities, including the continued notification of state and local government officials for an emergency declaration.”
Palmisano said in the release that SEC will maintain the majority of its safety preparedness, but the alterations mean the company will no longer be required to maintain pre-planned, off-site radiological area emergency plans for the 10-mile designated zone.
The release stated since the reactors had been shut down, there is not as high a level of danger from accidents as in the past, but it does still have more than 1,600 tons of nuclear waste below the station. Emergency drills will continue be practiced at SONGS.
The SONGS Decommissioning Education Fair is scheduled 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 9 at the Laguna Hills Community Center, 25555 Alicia Pkwy.
Update information about SONGS can be found at www.songscommunity.com.
cart in front of the horse with fuel still in the reactors and spent product still on the beach
@ George,
“…with fuel still in the reactors …”
There is NO fuel in the reactors. Fuel has been safely stored on site for 45 years. For those wishing to see some real pollution, see pollution from solar and wind turbine blade manufacturing:
http://www.businessinsider.com/solar-panel-makers-grappling-with-waste-2013-2
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-chinese-solar-plant-is-shut-down-after-4-days-of-violent-protests-over-pollution-2011-9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HSQYZSiu34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSnzXo_1N-o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw2qlYxeSj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tz9rrtRG8g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaP-NySKjeo
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1350811/In-China-true-cost-Britains-clean-green-wind-power-experiment-Pollution-disastrous-scale.html
http://tinyurl.com/q4r5cuz
http://tinyurl.com/kc5wx8r
http://tinyurl.com/oyka5l9
http://tinyurl.com/pmpxvqp
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/wind-energy-firm-sues-block-bird-death-data-release/
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/03/are-your-solar-panels-toxic
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/03/the-ugly-side-o.html
https://www.stanford.edu/group/sjir/pdf/Solar_11.2.pdf
http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/solar-energy-isnt-always-as-green-as-you-think
Once again public safety takes a back seat to corporate profits. I would like to see a clause written into this deal that if SONGS does have a major leak or meltdown? Each and every person that profited from this nuclear debacle, will be taken, shot and all their financial assets seized to be used to cover costs involved with clean up, storage and security costs for the next 10,000 years of THEIR nuclear waste.
“…will be taken, shot and all their financial assets seized…”
Would that include folks like YOU who have taken part in the false statements made about San Onofre keeping in mind that some 1200 people have lost their jobs partially as a result of the anti-nuke cavalier attitude toward the truth? How about the hit on the local economy? Don’t you feel shame for your role in these working people losing their jobs? Don’t you realize these folks had families with children who attended our schools? No, activists rarely feel shame when they have an agenda to pursue, and as the cliche goes, truth is the first casualty.