San Onofre nuclear restart plan faces more NRC questions

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CaptD wrote:

I think many readers are missing the point that San Onofre’s replacement steam generators (RSG) have MAJOR design flaws (Nuclear RSG Lemons), they now have more damage than the rest of the US nuclear “fleet” combined and one is less than a year old and the other is less than two years old!
Edison told ratepayers they would last 18+ years and save them over a Billion Dollars and now only about two years later we have PAID 1.3 BILLION DOLLARS and are still paying 54 million dollars a month while Edison tries to figure out how to not get stuck with the bill!
Edison is trying to sell US a bridge, A Bridge To N☢ Energy!

Mar 02, 2013 7:06pm EST  --  Report as abuse
CaptD wrote:

We have gone from being told about a tiny (radioactive) leak at SanO over a year ago to now being stuck with a 1.3 Billion Dollar Debacle that SoCal ratepayers are still paying for at over 54 Million Dollars a month, with no end in sight!
Even the NRC and now subsets within the NRC like the NRR and others are still trying to understand exactly what happened to cause the damage which destroyed Unit 3′s NEW steam generators in less than a year so that they can better evaluate the damage already done to Unit 2 steam generators.
Edison is desperate to restart using they’re poorly in-house designed steam generators at any power level so that they can claim that all this is just “part of doing business” and that the ratepayers should pay for this debacle instead of Edison’s shareholders who have had record profits the last few years while SoCal ratepayers have seen their electric bills move ever upward!
How bad does it has to get, before SoCal ratepayers can expect to get a fair and unbiased investigation into why all the checks and balances set up to protect CA ratepayers HAVE COMPLETELY FAILED TO WORK?

Mar 02, 2013 7:11pm EST  --  Report as abuse
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