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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

San Onofre News Update 6/6

REGULATOR SEES ENOUGH ENERGY WITHOUT PLANT

U-T San Diego -
A top federal regulatory official for electrical-grid reliability is confident that San Diego County's summer power needs can be addressed without the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant. The reactivation of non-nuclear generation plants and preparations ...

Soaring Costs Plague California Nuke Plant Shut Down By Leak

Truth-Out -
While investigators examine the steam generator damage that has forced the months-long outage at California's San Onofre nuclear power plant, the cost of the shutdown and any necessary repairs continues to mount—and it's unclear who will end up paying ...

40 year utility industry veteran calls for California to embrace nuclear-free ...

Enformable -
S. David Freeman, former general manager of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, gave a history lesson that should be taken to heart by Southern California Edison, operators of theSan Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Orange County – and by ...

Former Utility Director Voices Nuclear Criticism

San Diego Reader (blog) -
S. David Freeman, former general manager of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, added his name to a list of critics calling for an end to operations at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station over the weekend, by way of an opinion piece ...

Backup power probed at ailing Cal nuke plant

Las Vegas Sun - ‎Jun 3, 2012‎
AP The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant operated for three decades with equipment that might have temporarily cut off the plant's emergency power supply in the event of an earthquake, government filings revealed Tuesday.

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