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| Acjachemen Wisdom Day: June 9th 2018 Honoring Our Ancestors |
Friday, June 29, 2018
Kevin Blanch: The History Of The San Onofre Nuke Shutdown
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Sounding The Alarm: San Onofre Nuclear Waste Storage
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| SHOWING UP IS ALSO NOT THAT COMPLICATED! |
- Who: Citizens concerned about nuclear waste safety at San Onofre
- What: Edison’s quarterly Community Engagement Panel (CEP) Meeting - San Onofre
- When: Wed, June 27, 2018 4:30pm - Meeting starts at 5:30pm
- Where: Casino San Clemente, 140 West Avenida Pico, San Clemente, CA 92672
- Why: Shocking revelations - Edison has no method in place to repair or replace defective canisters of nuclear waste. (they think it will take a few years to figure that out...)
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In Feb 2018, Edison began the year and a half long process of loading 73 more canisters of nuclear waste into the beachside concrete storage silo at San Onofre, adding to the 51 loaded canisters that have been on-site starting in 2003.
Public criticism ranges from outrage to disbelief as people realize the location of the nuclear waste storage is 100’ from the ocean, inches above the water-table, in an earthquake-tsunami zone, a few hundred yards from the I-5 freeway and Railroad, and…. on one of southern California’s most iconic beaches.
Details about the thin-walled canisters being used to contain the deadly radioactive waste cause even more alarm. Ongoing Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) studies show that these canisters are susceptible to corrosion which can lead to cracking. Loaded canisters cannot be inspected for cracks. And, as the President of Holtec, the manufacturer of the canisters, stated at a previous CEP meeting, even a microscopic through-wall crack will release millions of curies of radionuclides into the environment. https://youtu.be/euaFZt0YPi4
With each welded-shut 5/8” thick (thin) stainless steel canister containing roughly the radioactive equivalent of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, critics aptly refer to the loaded canisters as Chernobyl Cans.
Recent Shocking Revelations:
At the March 2018 CEP meeting, in his update on the nuclear waste loading process, Tom Palmisano, Edison’s Chief Nuclear Officer, stated that a defective canister was discovered. Workers found loose bolts in the bottom of an empty canister. The bolts hold the internal fuel basket structure in place, and allow passive helium flow inside the canister. This air flow is critical for cooling the thermally hot and highly radioactive waste. According to Palmisano, Holtec changed the interior design without notifying Edison or the NRC. Palmisano stated that all remaining canisters with the defective design were returned to Holtec, and loading resumed using canisters with the original ‘bolt-less’ design.
But what about the four - already loaded - defective canisters?
When asked if the four defective canisters will be unloaded, and reloaded into canisters with the original ‘bolt-less’ design, Palmisano explained that the technology does not currently exist to unload the waste from the canisters back into the spent fuel pools. He also mentioned this has been a known problem for years. https://youtu.be/mjgna2atn7Y. see video of entire March 2018 CEP meeting -
https://www.songscommunity.com/community-engagement/meetings/community-engagement-panel-meeting
AS YOU READ THIS LINE TODAY Edison has no method to repair or replace the defective canisters. LET THAT SINK IN FOR A MOMENT!!! NO PLAN B IF ANYTHING GOES WRONG!
At this next CEP meeting, in response to Edison’s inability to unload / reload canisters, Palmisano will presumably repeat what he has already stated at a number of CEP meetings, that defective or leaking canisters will be stored inside transport casks (like Russian dolls). But transport casks have not been approved by the NRC for storage of defective or leaking canisters. Transport casks were not designed for storing these extremely hot canisters.
Public awareness of Edison’s poor choice of both the storage canisters and the beach-side storage site is growing. At this point, people are particularly concerned about the 51 canisters (Chernobyl Cans) that could already have significant corrosion and cracking.
We are calling for Edison to build a Hot Cell, and reload the fuel waste into proven Thick-wall Casks (10" to 19.75" thick). A Hot Cell is a helium-filled, robotically-operated facility, and it is the only other NRC approved method to unload canisters.
Thick-wall Casks, unlike the Thin-wall Cans, can be inspected, maintained and monitored to PREVENT major radioactive releases into the environment. Thick-wall Casks withstood the Fukushima disaster.
Further implications of recent revelations:its not just our backyard.
These problems with the canisters at San Onofre apply to numerous sites across the country where over 2400 loaded thin-walled canisters are currently stored.
The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board December 2017 report to Congress states
spent nuclear fuel and its containment must be retrievable, maintained and monitored to prevent hydrogen gas explosions in both short and long term storage and transport. Edison has clearly indicated this cannot be done with the on-site spent fuel pools.
NWTRB DOE Management and Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel December 2017
http://www.nwtrb.gov/docs/default-source/reports/nwtrb-mngmntanddisposal-dec2017-508a.pdf?sfvrsn=12
Edison's NRC license requires the ability to unload canisters back into the pool. It appears Edison is out of compliance with their NRC San Onofre dry storage licenses. RESCIND THOSE LICENSES!
Edison needs to build a Hot Cell (asap) to address the
Chernobyl Can - Ticking Time Bombs - at San Onofre.
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Community Engagement Panel Meeting June 27, 5-8:30 pm
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| Gene Stone & Darin R. McClure with our bGeigies |
Come learn about our recent trip to SONGS and our plan for public real time radiation monitoring on location at the San Onofre Nuclear Waste Site at So Cal Edison's next Community Engagement Panel meeting,
"Is a First Alert System at San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dump Possible? YES!" ~ Gene Stone former CEP member
Saturday, April 14, 2018
San Onofre Hot Cell Demolition Video 2007
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| Plan B RIP OCT 2007 |
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Test Area North (TAN) hot shop (hot cell) was destroyed in 2007. It was the only hot cell identified large enough for unloading San Onofre's thin cans. The MPR Associates white paper “SONGS Used Fuel Management – Defense in Depth” (September 2017), page 20, incredulously states it is feasible to use this TAN hot shop (hot cell) for San Onofre's thin cans. Their reference for this claim (Reference #21) actually states the opposite — it states the TAN facility was demolished in 2007. Viability of Existing INL Facilities for Dry Storage Cask Handling, USDOE Report, INL/EXT-13-29035, April 2013, Page v, Executive Summary. This appears to be a significant criminal comprehension error with the MPR authors.
Edison knew the TAN Hot Cell facility was demolished, yet did not catch this major error in the MPR San Onofre report. Closure of the TAN facility was discussed at the California Public Utilities Commission San Onofre decommissioning proceeding during August 2015 evidentiary hearings.
Every permit since 2007 needs to be rescinded,
for the criminal lie that anyone ever had a "Plan B"
Let's Start With A NEW Plan B.
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Friday, April 13, 2018
Acjachemen Wisdom Day: Honoring Our Ancestors June 9 2018 RSVP
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| One Vision. One People. One World |
RSVP HERE https://bit.ly/2GmK5ou
Remember, We belong to Mother Earth.
Date: Saturday | June 9
Time: 10:30am - 2pm*
*Allow ample time to park and walk to site (30-40 minutes).
Location: Trail 6, San Onofre State Park
Parking: $15 in lot (limited parking; ridesharing encouraged!)
Bring: Rattles, 2 wood sticks or clappersticks, water container & sunscreen
* Please no signs or drums
The Acjachemen Nation is a native California tribe who has stewarded, revered and inhabited territory in what is now known as Orange County for more than 12,000 years.
For more information, contact:
Adelia Sandoval, Acjachemen Nation
Info at juaneno.com
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STAKEHOLDERS ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND!
Friday, March 23, 2018
Safecast Community Engagement Panel Announcement
Gene Stone former CEP Member, invites current members to view a Safecast
I went to last nights Community Engagement Panel Meeting, a panel purposely set up with no power by the local utility so that they could mark off a check box for some bureaucrat someplace that says yep, they talked to the locals, move onto the next step.
At this meeting Top Palisano informed everyone in attendance that they have dropped five cans on the beach at Sano, 4 of the 5 cans had experimental pins helping to cool the waste that some how are now "questionably"doing their jobs, and that, from now on SCE will return to using the old design.
When asked by the panel why SCE didn't just go in and fix them? Open the cans, replace the pins? You know, do the job right. Toms answer sent shudders down the backs of those that do not drink So Cal Edison's expensive experimental kool aid.
"No one has ever opened up one of these cans before, we believe it will take 1-3 years to figure out how to do that, we will get back to you..." - TP
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| Yet Another Example Of SCE's Corporate Responsibility Standard
Where have we heard this before?
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Lucky for use we have people like Gene Stone and Sean Bonner. Science is about FACTS not TRUST, and the people at Safecast are building a world of citizen scientists, that are out collecting the facts and making that information publicly accessible in real time http://safecast.org/tilemap/
With all of the backroom dealings and other untoward shenanigans transparency and clarity are a breath of fresh air, Data without collaboration is information without knowledge.
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| SONGS Employees In An Alternate Reality Far Far Away |
It is time for the adults to come together in agreement that publicly measuring radiation around nuclear sites is something that needs to be set up before an accident not after one.
We also need to demand THICK WALLED CASKS and that So Cal Edison stop filling these Thin Walled cans, with a Chernobal worth of radiation EACH, until they have a way to inspect and repair and replace procedure in place and ready to go, (READ HOT CELL!)
We also need to demand THICK WALLED CASKS and that So Cal Edison stop filling these Thin Walled cans, with a Chernobal worth of radiation EACH, until they have a way to inspect and repair and replace procedure in place and ready to go, (READ HOT CELL!)
How can you help do that? If you would like to sponsor or help build one of these Safecast devices please fill out this form, or make a direct donation to the effort here https://publicwatchdogs.org/donate/ (please note radiation monitor network with your donation)
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Remembering The Ongoing Fukushima Tragedy 7 Years On
San Clemente Real Time Radiation Monitoring Now Active!
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SanOnofre.Com/Radiation |
Why Is Publicly Available Radiation Monitoring So Important
To All Residents Of Southern California?
To All Residents Of Southern California?
San Onofre Shut Down 1/31/2012 - from SanOnofreSafety.org
Edison did not admit to the radioactivity of the leaks into the environment from San Onofre for over 17 days until they were forced to disclose this information by the Nuclear Regulatory Administration! When Edison issued a press release February 17, 2012 admitting to these radiation leaks into the our community .- Donna Gilmore
Edison did not admit to the radioactivity of the leaks into the environment from San Onofre for over 17 days until they were forced to disclose this information by the Nuclear Regulatory Administration! When Edison issued a press release February 17, 2012 admitting to these radiation leaks into the our community .- Donna Gilmore
A common denominator, in every single nuclear accident is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, 'There's no danger to the public.' They do this before they themselves know what has happened because they are terrified that the public might react violently, either by panic or by revolt. ~ Jacques Cousteau
Doveryai, No Proveryai ~ President Ronald Reagan
Trust but Verify > Visit SanOnofre.com/Radiation to view Real Time Radiation Levels in San Clemente California, especially as So Cal Edison continues its fools errand of placing 3,600,000 lbs of nuke waste, in fragely thin cans, in a tsunami zone, on an earthquake fault.
Remember The Ongoing Global Tragedy of Fukushima
Because Saving Trestles Is Not Just About A Toll Road
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