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KXL Blocked – How Indigenous People Will End Tar Sands Pipelines
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San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dangers Compound
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San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dangers Compound
Posted on September 4, 2018 | No CommentsSince it was closed for safety violastions in 2012, the dangers of San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) between Orange County and San Diego have only continued to loom. Listen to this EcoJustice Radio interview with activists from Public Watchdogs explain how the nuclear waste being buried on the beach poses serious dangers to California.
San Onofre Beach as Permanent Nuclear Waste Dump
Posted on August 7, 2018 | 2 CommentsAccording to a former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chief, the beach in front of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station could become a permanent nuclear waste dump. Learn why Edison's program of storing deadly nuclear waste on the beach is not a "temporary" plan. And cartoonist Jerry Collamer weighs in.
Loose Nuts: Edison Reveals Huge Gap in Safety at San Onofre
Posted on April 9, 2018 | 1 CommentToonman Collamer opines: Work crews transferring radioactive spent fuel (nuclear waste) at the San Onofre nuclear plant from cooling pools into dry storage discovered a loose bolt inside one of the canisters, prompting Southern California Edison to temporarily halt the relocation effort. -- Los Angeles Times
San Onofre: Beachfront Leaky Nuclear Waste Facility Underway
Posted on March 25, 2017 | 1 CommentSan Onofre Nuclear Plant, on the coast of California, is busy building a nuclear waste dump for 1,600 tons of spent fuel on a bluff overlooking the Pacific. Most U.S. nuclear power facilities store highly radioactive waste in thin-walled canisters (mostly 1/2-inch thick) that both the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Department of Energy (DOE) admit cannot be inspected (on the outside or inside), cannot be maintained, repaired, and can crack and leak in the short-term.
Ontario: Nuclear Waste Repository Proposed for Great Lakes
Posted on June 30, 2014 | No CommentsThe fate of a proposed nuclear waste facility near the Canadian shores of Lake Huron is left to the "democratic process" within a small Ontario nuke-dependent town, while failing to consult the 40 million people whose drinking water could be affected.
Decommissioning San Onofre: Money Over Meltdown
Posted on May 13, 2014 | 1 CommentSan Onofre’s nuclear reactors are permanently shut down. However, Southern California Edison has left tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste that will remain on site for decades, if not longer. San Onofre’s spent fuel contains 89 times the amount of radiation (Cesium-137) released from Chernobyl. What is being done to rectify this situation?
Fukushima Meltdown: Flush the Radiated Mess into the Pacific
Posted on August 15, 2013 | 4 CommentsAlmost two and a half years after the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, the head of Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) raised concern on August 5 about the continued flow of radioactive water from the plant going into the Pacific Ocean, telling Reuters, "Right now we have a state of emergency." Hmm, yes, sounds about right.
San Onofre Nuclear Plant Closing: 8.4 Million Rejoice – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on June 6, 2013 | 1 Comment8.4 million people, put at risk for radioactive disaster from a meltdown at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, now rejoice as Southern California Edison announces its closure.
Edison’s Reef: A Not So Glowing Report — By Jerry Collamer
Posted on April 27, 2013 | 3 CommentsWhile large fish fail to thrive at Southern California Edison's artificial reef off the coast of San Clemente, California, mitigation mandated by the California Coastal Commission to repair destroyed kelp beds at their San Onofre Nuclear Plant (called SONGS), a wider marine mammal crisis is ongoing. Could radiation released from SONGS be the culprit in both cases?
Scary Nuke News: San Onofre Wants Live Tube-Rupture Experiment
Posted on March 21, 2013 | 5 CommentsSouthern California Edison says its analysis confirms that it would be safe to fire up the nuclear plant's Unit 2 reactor, but as a precautionary move it is proposing running it at only 70%. Yet it also suggests that running San Onofre at 100 percent for 11 months would present a strong possibility of a tube rupture resulting in a catastrophic release of radiation into the environment.
Show Goes on in Bid to Restart Leaking Nuke Plant – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on February 20, 2013 | No CommentsFor darn sure don't mention that cancerous creaky ol'nuke plant you were so handsomely paid to cheer for. Because talk of radioactivity at home, in the workplace, or at your kid's school, ruins an otherwise perfect day, no matter what.
Beware of the Nuclear Zombies – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on February 16, 2013 | No CommentsPaul Krugman defines a Zombie-idea as: a proposition that has been thoroughly refuted by analysis and evidence, and should be dead — but won’t stay dead, because it serves a political purpose, appeals to prejudices, or both. Sounds like nuclear power policies...
Death By Pellet – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on December 5, 2012 | No CommentsThere are 1,400 tons of these little monsters, cooling in San Onofre Nuke Plant's leaky, creaky, earthquake prone, tsunami threatened, God knows what else could go wrong at America's Worst Nuclear Workplace Environment, right here in Southern Cal.
Earthquakes at San Onofre: The Elephant in the Room
Posted on October 27, 2012 | 1 CommentSan Onofre Nuke Plant was designed for a 7.0 earthquake, but sits next to a fault with an 8.0 earthquake probability — 10 times stronger and long overdue.
Scariest Workplace in the USA, Shut Down, Still Scary – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on September 23, 2012 | 2 CommentsCalifornia's San Onofre Nuke Plant, although switched off, leaks radioactivity, and threatens a population of 8 million. It should be shut down permanently, today.
San Onofre Nuke Plant: When the Bottom Line Pushes Us Over the Cliff – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on August 28, 2012 | 1 CommentWhat's it going to take to have Edison admit its deadly addiction to nuclear, and mothball SONGS forever, before its thunder domes of molten uranium go over the cliff and 8-million citizens suffer the horrific, eternal consequences?
Dr. Helen Caldicott: Human Scientific Hubris Caused Fukushima Nuclear Meltdowns
Posted on July 6, 2012 | No CommentsIn March, 2012, physician and anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott spoke in Los Angeles on energy, environmental health, and the effects of the Fukushima meltdowns on the Japanese people. Meanwhile, a parliamentary panel confirms insititutional negligence and human scientific hubris caused the disaster.
Nuclear Fission: In the Beginning, It All Looked So Simple
Posted on June 24, 2012 | No CommentsNuclear Regulatory Commission & Edison host a town hall to discuss San Onofre Nuclear Power Generating Station's (SONGS's) status in its current Shut Down mode, due to systemic tube leaks in its new reactors. The experts scratch their heads as to why.
Fukushima Radiation Hitting the Streets of LA and Beyond – Dr. Mark Sircus
Posted on June 7, 2012 | No CommentsRight after Chernobyl blew its top, Edward Teller said on the ABC Evening News in late April 1986, “The chances of a real calamity at a nuclear power station are infinitesimally small. But should it happen, the consequences are impossible to imagine.” Now after Japan's Fukushima disaster, radiation continues to spread across the Pacific to North America with unimaginable consequences.
Fukushima Update: Hot Japanese Bluefin Tuna, Served Glowing
Posted on May 30, 2012 | 2 Comments"Yes, Madam, the tuna is marinated at sea during its long migration from Japan to here in both Cesium-134 and Cesium-137. It's so good, it glows."San Onofre Shake Rattle and Leak: A Life Epicentric
Posted on May 4, 2012 | 1 CommentEdison estimates a $65 million cost to replace the failed steam generators, with an overall $100 million associated losses. Edison has already backed off assertions of a June opening, due to lingering safety concerns. Meanwhile, an earthquake study moves forward, albeit with less outside oversight than that of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant.
China Syndrome Redux or Godzilla Lives? By Jerry Collamer
Posted on April 4, 2012 | 1 CommentUpdate from Fukushima: cooling water pours in, instantly drains out highly radiated, through unknown openings, workers can't locate, due to extreme radioactivity, as more quakes persist. Could things get worse? Seems so.
Keeping Our Lights On and Nukes Off – A Plan – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on March 12, 2012 | 1 CommentThere's no way on God's green earth, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) can fix 19,454 (per dome) rotting pipes, without a plumbing overhaul of nuclear proportions, keeping its creaky ol'double boilers shut down for years, or maybe decades. Good.
Nuclear Power Plays: Ye Old Boys Club – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on March 5, 2012 | No CommentsThe Good Ol'Boys at the club say: "Nuclear is risky but, as an investment opportunity, with trillions in governmental subsidies, and naive ratepayers picking up the rest, how can one's portfolio be without it? That said, I heat the spas and pools in all of my homes with solar."
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station – The Scariest Workplace in the USA – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on March 18, 2011 | 17 CommentsReading this will upset a bunch of folks living near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, called SONGS, between Orange and San Diego Counties, California. Because as far as I can tell, the truth percolating inside SONGS nuke plant ain't getting out.
