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San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dump Could Increase Local Cancer Risk Via Regular Discharge Of Radioactive Waste Into Pacific Ocean - Did San Onofre Nuclear Plant Operator Commit Fraud To Avoid Inspections? Radioactive Debris On Beach At San Onofre, Report Of Radioactive Debris Buried 'All Over The Place'

San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dump Could Increase Local Cancer Risk Via Regular Discharge Of Radioactive Waste Into Pacific Ocean - Did San Onofre Nuclear Plant Operator Commit Fraud To Avoid Inspections? Radioactive Debris On Beach At San Onofre, Report Of Radioactive Debris Buried 'All Over The Place'

2020; REPORT OF REGULAR NUCLEAR WASTE DISCHARGE INTO PACIFIC OCEAN FROM THE SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP



Opinion: San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dump Could Increase Local Cancer Risk
Just before the Memorial Day weekend, Southern California Edison discharged low-level radioactive waste into the ocean off San Onofre State Beach. A week later they did it again.

Unknown to most people, these radioactive discharges have been going on regularly — and secretly — for over a half century. Limited information about a release is disclosed the following year buried deep in Nuclear Regulatory Commission files.

The sad truth for public health is that nuclear power plant radiation is a protected pollutant. Here in San Diego County, radioactive pollutants are diluted with sea water following the theory that the solution to pollution is dilution. The radioactive water is pumped into the ocean through giant pipes 18 feet in diameter with some releases going on for over 24 hours.

2015 - RADIOACTIVE DEBRIS ON BEACH AT SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR PLANT, BUT NO ACTUAL RADIATION LEVELS ARE BEING REPORTED; HOW MUCH RADIATION WAS THERE? 

NBC: Radioactive debris on beach at California nuclear plant — Magazine: Bombshell report reveals radiation cover-up — Experts: “Unbelievable what they’re doing there”… “We still don’t know how high those levels were” (VIDEO)

RENSE REPORTS THAT RADIOACTIVE DEBRIS IS BURIED ALL OVER THE PLACE, INCLUDING OUTBUILDINGS ON A NEARBY ISLAND


Via HoTatersSeptember 29, 2015 Yoichi Shimatsu was right about SONGS.


He said radioactive debris was buried all over the place, including the outbuildings on a nearby offshore island.

DID SONGS COMMIT FRAUD TO AVOID A FULL FLEDGED REVIEW BY THE NRC WHEN REPLACING THE STEAM TUBES?


Did the operators of San Onofre nuclear power plant use fraud to avoid a full fledged review and red tape from the Nuclear Regulatory Agency? They are allowed to replace like for like parts that wear out with a review, but when they completely re-engineered steam tubes and upped the pressure limits, and had a completely new system installed, didn't they avoid an NRC review and cause a radioactive release due to design flaws? How is this not fraud and lying to a nuclear regulator? Why did not one person get charged or go to jail over this?

2013 LETTER FROM WIFE OF NUCLEAR OPERATOR TO GOVERNOR BROWN


Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. Office of the Governor State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, California 95814
May 2, 2013 

Dear Governor Brown, 

Nearly a year ago I wrote a letter to you voicing my concerns about the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), and to humbly ask you to use the power of your office to investigate the plant’s ongoing declining performance and equipment conditions.

During this past year the facility’s declining performance issues have been lost in the shadow of the much bigger problem with premature tube degradation in the recently installed Replacement Steam Generators, and concerns about the plant’s future operation. 

My husband, James Chambers, is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Licensed Nuclear Reactor Operator for San Onofre Units 2 and 3. He worked at SONGS from 1983 until 2010 when he left his job on medical leave because of work induced health problems. In 2010, my husband came under retaliation by Southern California Edison (SCE) for raising safety concerns and filing allegations of serious violations at the plant with the NRC. 

When my husband’s medical leave was abruptly terminated, SCE no longer had a job for him; so the company offered him a separation agreement with the stipulation that he not publically disclose any information which might be harmful to SCE or its subsidiaries. SCE is a public utility; the fact that they use their abundant financial resources to actively silence potential critics is a practice which I believe should concern you and all of the members of our state legislature. 

It is my firm belief that there are multiple levels of corruption within SCE, the California Public Utilities Commission, and the Interjurisdictional Planning Committee which needs to be rooted out and exposed. Without complete transparency by our public utilities, and the agencies which oversee them; honest public debate about performance, equipment, and environmental issues pertaining to SONGS cannot occur and places the health and safety of the public in jeopardy. 

Without honesty and transparency, we run the risk of having a significant nuclear event comparable to Chernobyl or Fukushima in southern California. As I am sure you are well aware of, if there were ever a significant radiological release to the atmosphere at SONGS the area surrounding the plant could become uninhabitable for several decades or longer. It is no small task to clean up radioactive contamination from the environment. This is a serious topic which could impact the future of California. 

Currently, SONGS Units 2 and 3 are both shut down because of tube failure and premature tube wear in the Replacement Steam Generators, and the situation is being investigated by the NRC. Last October, SCE proposed a plan to run Unit 2 at only 70% plant power, claiming that this change would eliminate the conditions which led to the Steam Generator Tube Rupture in Unit 3, and premature wear in both Units’ Steam Generators. 

However, a reduction in plant power, which is the measurement relating to how many megawatts the Turbine Generator produces, can never eliminate the threats to a Steam Generator Tube Rupture condition as SCE is claiming it will. SONGS Unit 2 is a Pressurized Water Reactor, and the conditions that have caused the failure of the Steam Generators are the normal operating pressure of the Reactor, and the flow rate of water into the Steam Generators. 

These are fixed pressures and flows that cannot be changed; therefore, any attempt to run the plant will result in exactly the same conditions which caused the premature tube wear and tube ruptures in the first year of service of the Replacement Steam Generators. Please bear in mind that the new metal alloy that was used and the tube failures that resulted from the first year of service was equivalent to 20-30 years of service in other plants using the original metal alloy. 

SCE, contrary to the NRC’s request for complete transparency, has implied that operating the plant at a reduced power level will reduce the threat of further Steam Generator tube ruptures and subsequent radioactive release to the environment, when in fact, the threat can never be removed because of the design of the plant and the weak alloy which the Replacement Steam Generators are constructed of. 

I also believe that SCE’s proposed plan is irresponsible, and shows a serious lack of conservative decision making principles. “Conservative decision making” is a nuclear fundamental that means the safest decisions should always be made to protect the health and safety of the general public, the plant workers, and the environment. 

If the NRC approves SCE’s plan, workers in the Operations Department will be required to start up and run the reactor knowing that the Replacement Steam Generators have extensive design problems and significant wear which could lead to another tube rupture and radioactive release to the environment. 

As the wife of a reactor operator, I lived through many refueling outages and unit start-ups throughout the 1990’s and early 2000’s; and I believe that I have a comprehensive understanding of the level of stress that reactor operators experience during normal work conditions. 

The fact that SCE wants its workers to operate defective equipment shows the flagrant disregard that SCE and SONGS senior management has for the health and safety of nuclear workers at the plant, as well as the people living in the surrounding communities. 

According to the findings of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), San Onofre has been the worst rated nuclear plant in the nation. And according to the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO), San Onofre has been the worst or near worst rated nuclear plant in the nation for industrial safety. 

And according to the NRC, San Onofre has had the longest running cross cutting issues in Human Performance in the history of U. S. nuclear power. “Cross cutting issues in Human Performance” means that in nearly every department significant errors are being made because workers do not follow required procedural steps. 

The length and breadth of these issues were so egregious it forced the NRC to revise their procedures because San Onofre was actually outside of all postulated conditions set forth in the NRC procedures governing Human Performance failures. This is very condemning evidence which shows that SONGS has been mismanaged for many years. How much more evidence do we need before an adjudicated public hearing is held to investigate the matter.

The design problems and the conditions which led to the first Steam Generator tube failure in Unit 3 have already been investigated and a root cause analysis has been performed by several industry experts. These analyses confirm that future Steam Generator tube wear and tube ruptures with a resultant radioactive release to the environment are inevitable. 

Why does SCE need to do a 5 month experimental test run with Unit 2; just to see if the conclusions of the root cause analyses are correct? At what point in time did we decide that doing an experiment with a full scale commercial nuclear reactor was a good idea? 

What SCE is proposing is unprecedented in the history of U.S. nuclear power. It was an equipment test experiment which led to the nuclear event at Chernobyl in 1986. Didn’t we learn anything from that tragedy? 

Public distrust, and nuclear worker distrust of SCE’s management of SONGS has been growing significantly over the past year, and I believe it has reached a boiling point.

The electric ratepayers of southern California do not believe they should be held financially responsible for SCE’s engineering mistakes in the design of the Replacement Steam Generators, or for the cost of running a shutdown nuclear facility which has not produced a single megawatt in over a year. 

As Governor of the state, I believe you have a responsibility to take action on this matter and not leave it to the sole discretion of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to decide the fate and future of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The NRC’s biggest flaw is that they are neither omnipresent nor omniscient; and they cannot regulate the nuclear power industry as everyone assumes they do. 

In 2010, when my husband filed serious allegations regarding blatant procedural violations and retaliation against himself for raising safety concerns at the plant, he conveyed to me his experience that after all was said and done the NRC would never actually do anything; and nothing has changed in three years. 

I would greatly appreciate a response to this letter. I did not receive a response a year ago when I wrote to your office the first time expressing my concerns about SONGS. Thank you for your time and your dedication to keeping California free from preventable nuclear accidents. 

In conclusion let me say; the only thing necessary for a nuclear disaster to occur in California is for a good Governor to do nothing. 

Sincerely, 

Mrs. Bethann Chambers Valley Center, California Print Bethann Chambers Letter to Governor Brown 

2015 - AFTER CLOSING, SCE CREATED A NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP  IN LARGE CITY, NO PLANS TO MOVE ANY RADIOACTIVE WASTE, ANYTIME SOON


rogerthat April 7, 2015 Why is Issa ignoring the nuclear waste dump SCE has created in his district?

My discussion with Issa about San Onofre By: Roger Johnson

Tonight I was called (by a computer) to participate in a Darrell Issa electronic Town Hall meeting.

The way it works is that he talks constantly at length and you can call in a question, first screened by a staff member.

I was put in a line for about 30 min listening to questions and his answers, mostly softball questions from his conservative base.

On one question about the Middle East, he said that we don’t know if Israel has any nuclear weapons (it has been known for decades that they have at least 500).

I finally got recognized and told him that the number one issue in his district was San Onofre becoming a nuclear waste dump indefinitely, a huge public danger with 2000 tons of waste in a tsunami quake zone.

I further said that Yucca was rejected by the DOE as not having enough room and by scientists because of deep water penetration, and he has done nothing to help get this waste moved.

Then he cut me off and went on and on but I could not interject or answer or debate. All one sided.

His basic points were:

1. I was wrong about SO being either a tsunami zone or in an earthquake fault zone. It was neither.

2. The casks are safe because they have been there for many years with no problems.

3. He has been actively engaged because he has advocated Yucca Mt as a solution. He said it is completely safe and it is Harry Reid who is causing the problem by keeping it closed. Yucca Mt is the solution.

End of one-sided “discussion.” Next question. He did not address my points.

I wonder how many of you are willing to call or write to his office saying your heard his town hall discussion on April Fools day about 6:45.

If anyone can go to his website and find a recording, please share. It would be a good time to flood him over his lack of understanding of the issues and his his lack of action and what is probably the most important problem in his district.

If you go to his website and click on the News Room, then search for the phrase “San Onofre.” There are zero results.


Issa: Amy walker, deputy district director, Vista 760-599-5000, DP 949 281-2449, fax 760 599-1178, Amy.walker@mail.house.gov, ca49doscheduling.mail@house.gov,ca49ima@gmail.house.gov

Let Darrell hear from YOU: http://issa.house.gov/contact/contact-me
August 25, 2015
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