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“Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, [those] hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them . . .for this is a righteous war, and the removal of so foul a brood from off the face of the earth is a service God will bless.”
“Take care, sir,” cried Sancho. “Those over there are not giants, but windmills.”
—Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 160
We wish these were windmills, read more @OCWeekly
Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Onofre
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Onofre
Did Edison submit false information to NRC?
Friends of the Earth demands release of leaked report
Tonight NRC public meeting
6 p.m. Pacific time, Tuesday, February 12, at Capo Beach Church, Capistrano Beach, and is accessible via a live…
Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen was interviewed on Russia Today to discuss Southern California Edison’s “San Onofre” Power Plant. Arnie says, “The worst plant in the U.S. for evacuation plans, is San Onofre. When they built it in the fifties, no one w…
Continue readingThe Games People Play
In this week’s podcast, Fairewinds looks at how difficult it is for the public to meaningfully participate in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing process. Arnie Gundersen was retained by Friends of the Earth t…
Continue readingJune, a Buddhist nun recently returned from Fukushima, graphically documents how children are the most tragic victims of nuclear contamination.
Decommission San Onofre – Fukushima USA
Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Haza…
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In this week’s Fairewinds podcast Arnie Gundersen discusses rece…
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Continue readingDecember 18, 2012 Nuclear Regulatory Commission remote “public” meeting convened 2700 miles from the communities in the most immediate danger should something go terribly wrong at Southern California Edison’s damaged, defective nuclear reactors. Fri…
Continue readingDecember 18, 2012 Nuclear Regulatory Commission remote “public” meeting convened 2700 miles from the communities in the most immediate danger should something go terribly wrong at Southern California Edison’s damaged, defective nuclear reactors. Fri…
Continue readingMUST WATCH FOR ANYONE LIVING IN THE ZONE!!!
Both nuclear power reactors numbers 2 and 3 at San Onofre, California have been shut downsince January 2012 because of faulty, leaking new steam generators.Operated by Southern California Ediso…
Continue readingThe California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) had managed to prevent most of us from speaking, but after listening to one Chamber-of-Commerce speaker after another take up the speaking time to say the same thing — that San Onofre …
Continue readingRecorded at a Nuclear Regulatory Commission Public Meeting October 9th, 2012
Note #1: Mode 3 testing was begun approximately one week later. Ongoing Today!
Note #2: The girl in the blue shirt trying to get called on… never was. This …
Continue readingOFFSITE NOTIFICATION DUE TO HYDROGEN LEAKAGE
“The control room was notified that an unknown quantity of H2 gas (classified as a minor coupling leak [identified with Snoop liquid leak detector]) is currently being released to the air from the Unit …
Continue readingThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has scheduled a Category 3 Meeting Tonight, October 9, 2012, from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort, 1 Monarch Beach Resort, Dana Point CA. 92629.
Get there at 5pm to let your voice …
Continue readingThe Nukes at San Onofre are mirror images of each another. To shutdown one, and startup the other, is suicidal.
If you look at the charts released by Southern California Edison (SCE) today, showing the tube wear in the replacement steam g…
Continue readingDaniel Hirsch, told KPBS San Onofre has 400 times as many damaged steam generator tubes as in a typical nuclear reactor with new steam generators. He said there were also 1,000 times as many indications of wear.
“These are very, very sick rea…
Continue readingThe above video highlights some of the mistakes that were made prior to the ongoing Fukushima disaster that echo things being said about the San Onofre Nuclear Waste Generating Station.
“By assuming that the severity or frequency would be less tha…
Continue readingThe above video highlights some of the mistakes that were made prior to the ongoing Fukushima disaster that echo things being said about the San Onofre Nuclear Waste Generating Station.
“By assuming that the severity or frequency would be less tha…
Continue readingI am calling because of my concerns over the dangers of nuclear power and nuclear waste in this country. After the worst ongoing nuclear disaster in human history at Fukushima, a growing group of U.S. citizens have come together to address concerns…
Continue readingDecision Follows 24 Groups’ June Petition in Wake of Major Waste Confidence Rule Decision; Most Reactor Projects Already Stymied by Bad Economics and Cheaper Fuel AlternativesWASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Nuclear Regula…
Continue readingRadiation 101 slide show.
Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Clemente
Let Fukushima be a warning to those that would let the fox guard the henhouse.
Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Clemente
Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Clemente
Just give me the warm power of the sunGive me the steady flow of a waterfallGive me the spirit of living things as they return to clay.Just give me the restless power of the windGive me the comforting glow of a wood fireBut please take all of your ato…
Continue readingTONIGHT San Clemente City Council is poised to make history yet again regarding the San Onofre nuclear power plant. They will consider calling for special hearings and investigations about SAFETY, COST and RELIABILITY in formal letters to the Nucle…
Continue readingConclusion
Because the identical failure modes exist in both San Onofre Unit 2 and 3 and because
the damage to both Units is especially excessive, when compared to the remainder of the
US nuclear power plants, it is Fairewinds’ opinion that both…
Conclusion
Because the identical failure modes exist in both San Onofre Unit 2 and 3 and because
the damage to both Units is especially excessive, when compared to the remainder of the
US nuclear power plants, it is Fairewinds’ opinion that both…
San Onofre is located in an urban area on the coast south of San Clemente with millions of people, in a tsunami hazard zone, above intersecting active earthquake faults and has the worst safety record of all 104 reactors in the U.S. .
Aging Nuke P…
Continue readingDesign flaws & Miscalculations at San Onofre?
Removing the “stay cylinder” a “safety device” to pack more tubes in these steam generators & then calling that a design flaw or miscalculation, is like removing the …
Continue reading1. Does Southern California Edison (SCE) have the management integrity to be entrusted with the management of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant?
2. Has the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) been compromised by SCE such that the NRC is …
Continue reading5 Fundamental, Unrepairable, Fatal flaws at San Onofre
18 steam-generator-specific questions for SCE/NRC
San Onofre Nuke Decommissioned
6-9pm Monday June 18
San Juan Capistrano Community Center
Community Hall
25925 Camino Del Avion
San Juan Cap…
Real People Work at the San Onofre Nuclear Waste Generating Station,
And 8 Million Real People Like You Live within the 50 Mile Zone.
I was driving south on Interstate 5 into San Diego County, past the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The…
The San Onofre Tsunami Wall, Built for a wave 14 feet over mean high 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. …
Continue readingSan 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,
occ…
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, modification…
Continue readingFukushima 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 t…
Continue readingYesterday I was interviewed by Jim Patton the Main Anchor / Reporter at San Diego 6 News. We went all over the San Onofre topic, way beyond what is going on at the Concordia Elementary School here in San Clemente,
Here are a few of the topics we …
Continue readingRally to Shut San Onofre / A short film by @AceHoffmanGuest speakers:Daniel Hirsch — Committee to Bridge the Gap Larry Agran – Irvine City Council Cathy Iwane – American who lived for 25 years in JapanOther Speakers Included: Gene Stone — M…
Continue readingRespect Responsibility & Readiness …
so began the 5th grade trimester awards here in San Clemente, with the 3 R’s of Concordia Elementary. But I digress, this story started the Friday before. Seems there was a fire that afternoon …
Continue readingNo I Did Not.
From: listserver.capousd.org
Subject: Pirncipal’s Info Bulletin
Date: April 25, 2012 11:20:43 AM PDT
To: “Concordia ListServe” <@listserver.capousd.org>
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Concordia Elementary School
PRINCIPAL?…
Arnold Gundersen speaking tonight before the Irvine City Council, 6PM, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Irvine, CA 92606, USA
Mr Gundersen is an energy advisor with 40-years of nuclear power engineering experience. A former nuclear industry senior vice presid…
Continue readingThis land is sacred, from the mountains to the sea!
Written by Jodi Levine, guitar, Jon Sherman, flute
Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Cleme…
San Onofre, my local nuclear reactor, is completely shut down right now (like all but one reactor in Japan) and may never reopen. Why not? Because the steam generator tubes (made in Japan, by the way) clang into each other. Why does that happen? App…
Continue readingThe Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, damaged by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 released large amounts of 131I into the atmosphere, which was assimilated into canopy blades of Macrocystis pyrifera sampled from coastal California. The sp…
Continue readingWe Are All Radioactive an online crowdfunded episodic documentary about a group of surfers rallying to rebuild Japan after the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear melt down in Fukushima.
And a cautionary tale for anyone living downwind from …
Continue readingHundreds of millions of smartphones have been sold worldwide. Radiation detectors and dosimeters that leverage the network capabilities of smartphones to measure and share radiological data have recently been launched in the market. In this paper we…
Continue readingOn March 29, the National Academy of Sciences released a 460-page report about cancer risks associated with living near a nuclear power plant. They recommended six areas in the United States for intensive studies of possible cancer links. Our are…
Continue readingWhat is really going on at San Onofre? @AceHoffman explains “Why The San Onofre Nuke Plant Is Leaking Radiation” in terms anyone can understand. For more read his post on the subject.
Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukus…
In an act of solidarity with Fukushima, Japan on March 11, 2012 a coalition of demonstrators protested outside of San Onofre Nuclear Waste Generating Station (SONWGS). The waste plant has been shut down for more than 2 months due to a radiation leak…
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