Today Nuclear Free California Network Summit

The NFC Network Summit will take place at Irons in the Fire Restaurant at 150 East Avenida Magdalena San Clemente, Ca 92672 starting at 10am sharp, ending at 4pm sharp. A vegetarian lunch will be served around 1pm. You may want to have a little something before you come to hold you till lunch. If you are coming and have not rsvp please do so asap so I get the count right for lunch. Agenda  Nuclear Free California Network Meeting May 27, 2012 Lunch 1-1:45 p.m. Welcome--Carol and Gene    5 minutes, cosponsors are SD Peace Resource Center, Friends of the Earth, ROSE. Ask for notetaker, timekeeper Friends of the Earth—Importance of working together & how FOE will work w/us. 15 minutes Intros—individuals and groups – Marylia Kelley meeting facilitator 20 minutes NFC Network Business:              Unfinished business from last meeting 15- 30 minutes             New business  15 minutes Presentations: Volunteer Monitoring Network—Ace, Bill, Darin 30 minutes                         Bill –technology                         Ace and Bill—monitoring lesson                         Darin—technology of putting all info on one website City Councils Update—Gary Headrick  10 minutes Community Choice and Conservation Money—Barbara George 30 minutes (20 presentations/15 minutes questions) Net Metering—Eon/Mary Beth 15 minutes plus questions Kimberly Roberson will bring us up to date on Radiation in our food 10 minutes Action Plans             Statewide Bus Action to Sacramento—Gene and Marcia   15 minutes             Fukushima Activist Tour in July—Steve and Umi   30 minutes             Epidemiological Study—Mel   10 minutes             How to remove barriers to using local renewables—how to motivate our            communities—Barbara 20 minutes             Other:  Meeting Sum-up 60 minutes, Issue Press release for group signup Visit San Onofre site after meeting closes for those who want to go.

San Onofre Tsunami Worst Case Scenario

The San Onofre Tsunami Wall, Built for a wave 14 feet over mean low tide. 

The projected worst case scenario for a tsunami in Southern California is a 10-12m run-up, or approximately 40 foot change in mean sea level. - Dana Point Tsunami Brochure.pdf

Did Edison not get the memo? You will know when they have learned from Fukushima, when they start building a real tsunami wall to protect San Onofre.

San'O Beach Rocks Catch Fire in Lady's Pants

San Onofre Surfers

Today, there's no disputing Trestles Surf Beach, and it's iconic surf mentor; San Onofre Surfing Beach (together form 7-miles of perfect, wild & wonderful world-class surfing waves, from San Clemente CA's southern border, occupying the northern 1/3rd of Camp Pendleton Marine Base's 18-mile undeveloped coastline), are now the certifiably, undisputed, hottest two surf spot on the planet, bar none, as of May 16. 2012. How hot? So hot, the rocks on the beach catch fire. Really. Google Beach Rocks Catch Fire in Lady's Pants. You'll see.

How could beach rocks catch fire? Because Trestles and San Onofre are HOT!!!, duh. But what makes beach rocks hot there? Hot enough to catch fire (yikes), and no where else on the planet's gazillion miles of rocky coastlines? Hmm, could it be the presence of a leaky, creaky nuclear power plant, combined with a 200-square mile 75-year old military training facility - both right there, with both facilities dumping no end of radiated water, spent and unspent military ordinances into that ocean everyday nonstop, for a combined 100-years? If the rocks on the beach catch fire, how are the fish doing? How are the surfers doing? How is the ocean doing? No need to bring matches to Trestles. Just rub two rocks together.

In 1969, Ohio's Cuyahoga River caught fire, setting the standard for really stupid human neglect of our environment. On May 16, 2012, Trestles and San Onofre set a new scary standard for human mistreatment of our oceans. Because when rocks on the beach ignite, we're in serious trouble neighbor.


Jerry Collamer
San Clemente
Ca - 92672

San Onofre Action Alert May 23rd in Irvine

We will have a rally and Press Conference on May, 23 4 to 6pm in Irvine at 14555 Bake St. which is in between Cromwell and Trabucco to delivery our letter to SCE , . Please bring you signs and banners. This action is being taken in SF & SD as well as in Irvine. There is free guest parking right in front of the employee parking lot on the Bake st side of the street.

The will go something like this & more. "Now that both reactors are down and it doesn't look safe to re start them we want to know why the almost 1/2 a billions that was to be used for energy efficiency & conservation programs is still sitting in the bank? With San Onofre shutdown this money should be spend on more meaningful programs than light bulbs, if SCE had a real and effective program for rebates on air conditioners, the energy savings this summer during peak energy periods could prevent any foreseeable problems in the coming months." You will get a copy of the letter as well when it is done.

Thanks and hope to see many of you there

Bad Vibrations San Onofre Exposed

In conclusion, the NRC has stated that nuclear power plants like San Onofre cannot risk compromising critical safety systems and possible radiological contamination in an effort to return to operation before a thorough root cause analysis, modifications, and subsequent repairs are adequately reviewed by the NRC and implemented. Historical evidence has proven that power reductions do not solve underlying and serious degradation problems, resonance frequency issues. Rather, power reductions can significantly increase the risk of unplanned, forced outages during times of peak demand and can cause significant risk to public health in the event of a single tube rupture or a series of ruptures if the main steam line were to break.

Finally, if a steam-­‐line accident were to occur, vibrationally induced tube damage at San Onofre could cause an inordinate amount of radioactivity to be released outside of the containment system compromising public health and safety in one of the most heavily populated areas in the entire United States.
Read the entire report here 

Nuclear Free Cal Network Summit May 27, 2012

The next Nuclear Free Cal Network Summit will be in San Clemente on May 27th on Sunday at 10am to 4pm if you want to join us. RSVP please, cosponsored by ROSE, Peace Resource Center of SD, and Friends of the Earth. Only a few seats left for more info contact me asap!

Fukushima Truth And Future

Fukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Future

As part of a presentation in Kansai, Japan on May 12th 2012, Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education answers specific questions asked by symposium organizers regarding the condition of the spent fuel pool at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4. Fairewinds analyzes the explosion at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3. Also, Arnie discusses what the future may hold for Japan if it chooses a path without nuclear power.