by Victoria B.
Nuclear consultants
Fairewinds Associates and anti-nuclear activists
Friends of the Earth
are at it again with a new “report” that seeks to create concern, with
little to no substance, over steam generator tube leaks at
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). The report, “
Steam Generator Failures at San Onofre,”
claims that without a thorough root cause analysis of why the plant’s
recently installed steam generator tubes have become worn, that:
“…radioactive
releases might be significantly larger than those that occurred after
the January 2012 tube leak. Such an accident would cause implementation
of the California emergency evacuation plan and closing of the San
Clemente beach and Interstate I-5, potentially for an extended period of
time.”
Fairewinds’ opinion misleads the general
public to believe that the plant already released a large amount of
radiation, which in fact, it has not. In a
February 17 press release,
Southern California Edison (SCE) clarified:
The
radioactivity released to the atmosphere during the steam generator
tube leak was barely measurable – 4E-5 millirems or 0.00004 millirems --
which is 200 times less than you would receive by having a smoke
detector in your home for a year.
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