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San Onofre Nuclear Plant in California to Close
2013-06-08 04:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The owners of the San Onofre nuclear power plant in Southern California, which has been shut since January 2012, said on Friday that they would close it permanently because of uncertainty over when it could be reopened. The two reactors at San Onofre had not run since a small amount of radioactive steam escaped from new tubes damaged by vibration and friction. Coming months after the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown in Japan, the event prompted a wave of public opposition and set off a legal and regulatory...
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San Onofre Is Dead and So Is Nuclear Power
2013-06-07 22:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: From his California beach house at San Clemente, Richard Nixon once watched three reactors rise at nearby San Onofre. As of today all three are permanently shut. Its a monumental victory for grassroots activism. It marks an epic transition in how we get our energy. In the thick of the 1970s Arab oil embargo, Nixon said thered be 1000 such reactors in the U.S. by the year 2000. As of today, there are 100. Four have shut here this year. Citizen activism has put the nuclear renaissance into full...
Californias Damaged San Onofre Nuclear Plant to Be Retired
2013-06-07 16:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Southern California Edison has decided to permanently retire Units 2 and 3 of its San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, SONGS, due to premature wear found on over 3,000 tubes in replacement steam generators and a leak of radioactive material. Both SONGS units have been shut down since January 2012. Unit 2 was taken out of service January 9, 2012, for a planned routine outage. Unit 3 was taken offline January 31, 2012, after station operators detected a leak in a tube inside a steam generator...
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Edison to Permanently Shut Down San Onofre Nuke Reactors
2013-06-07 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The crippled San Onofre nuclear plant will be retired, its operator said on Friday, leaving California scrambling to keep the state's lights and air-conditioners on this summer even as it pursues ambitious plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Southern California Edison, owned by Edison International , said it would retire both nuclear reactors at the plant in the face of onerous maintenance bills and an industry-wide shift toward burning more cheap natural gas to feed the grid. The...
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SCE Exercised Responsible Oversight For Replacement Steam Generators At The San Onofre Nuclear Plant
2013-05-28 20:48:00| plantautomation News Articles
Letters released recently by Southern California Edison (SCE) demonstrate that it exercised responsible oversight of the vendor of the San Onofre nuclear plant replacement steam generators before any designs were completed or approved
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