I 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 readingDarin R. McClure
Decision 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…
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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. …
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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…
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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>
Reply-To: @listserver.capousd.org
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…
Continue readingSaturday March 10, 6:00pm
San Clemente Community Center100 Calle Seville San Clemente Ca 92672
Join The Event On Facebook http://www.facebook.com/events/381660571861509/
The evening will conclude with a ca…
Continue readingSaturday March 10, 6:00pm
San Clemente Community Center100 Calle Seville San Clemente Ca 92672
Join The Event On Facebook http://www.facebook.com/events/381660571861509/
The evening will conclude with a ca…
Continue readingSurfing For Change, created and hosted by Kyle Thiermann is a free youtube series and is on a mission is to shatter the myth that activists don’t have any fun.
If you want to get in touch with Kyle, Tweet: @Surfing4ChangeAging Nuke Plants On Fault …
Continue readingFor all of those within 100 miles of San Clemente, please try to make an appearance at our City Council Meeting tonight!
6:00pm at City Hall 100 Avenida Presidio (Oral Communications Part 1 – not
very long)
Please show (friendly, respectful, qui…
Continue readingKevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear on the radiation leaks at San Onofre.
Did you know that 75% of Nuke plants leak radiation into the surrounding environment? Google it!
San Onofre: “It’s Just That Broken”
San Onofre Radiation Fallout Map
The …
Continue readingWhat does a Banana have in common with a Nuke plant?
Nothing.
Ones waste will need to be cooled, guarded & bureaucrated for 500,000 years.
The other you feed to your children.
Questions? Watch this video below.
Aging Nuke Plants On F…
Continue readingWatch Nuclear Aftershocks on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.
Travel to three continents to explore the debate about nuclear power: Is it safe?
What are the alternatives? And could a Fukushima-style disaster happen in the U.S.?
One man’s fear mon…
Continue readingArnie Gundersen of Fairewinds analyzes cancer rates for young children near Fukushima using the National Academy of Science’s BEIR (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) VII Report. Based on BEIR VII, Fairewinds determines that at least one in e…
Continue readingThe year 2011 marked the first serious accident at a nuclear power plant in a quarter century. After the previous disaster at Chernobyl, the world’s nuclear industry axiomatically predicted that another accident—especially in an advanced countr…
Continue readingVote Yes at http://sanclementetimes.com/
The San Clemente Times is running an amazingly biased little poll that asks, “Will you support the ballot initiative to close nuclear power plants” and then answers the question, “No Wa…
Continue reading“These reactors produce 50 years of electricity and half a million years of waste. It’s not a particularly good deal.” Danial Hirsch
On Oct. 11, 2011 a forum on the issue of San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) running past it’s deco…
Continue readingIs the Japanese government and the IAEA protecting the nuclear industry and not the people of Japan by claiming that Fukushima is stable when it is not? Fairewinds’ chief engineer Arnie Gundersen outlines major inconsistencies and double-speak by …
Continue readingIs cancer an epidemic in America? by Ace Hoffman
A friend and I were looking back at 2011.
She remarked about all the cancer she’s seen this year. Last month she lost a close friend — a woman in her 30s. Another friend, 40, has bladder canc…
Continue readingAt the mention of nuclear meltdown,
and its cataclysmic results (hello
Fukushima), the nuke industry’s
chorus erupts in unified denial,
“It can’t happen!” But it does happen.
In Japan and Russia, nukes’ tragic
opera has no end. Reality, televises…
We don’t want anymore nuclear plants, you’ve got to shut them down – Jerry Lopez Pipeline Master
Our Water Our Life. @Surfrider
Let’s not get caught inside on this one California! #DecomSONGS
Keep Paddling To Stop Nukes
Aging Nuke Plants On F…
Continue reading“With us the circle stands for the togetherness of people who sit with one another around a fire, relatives and friends united in peace, while the Pipe passes from hand to hand. Once all the families in the villages were in turn circles within a la…
Continue readingSo the folks who run San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station are seeking permission to bill you the ratepayers for a souped-up, $64 million earthquake fault study of the area around the aging nuke plant.
But who should oversee this study? Experts wor…
Continue readingScientists at the federal Space Weather Prediction Center say that area is the most active part of the sun since 2005. It has dozens of sunspots, including one that is the size of 17 Earths.
…
“It’s still growing. The size is w…
Continue readingOur Water Our Life by Surfrider
all surfers are joined by one ocean. @surfrider
Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
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