San Onofre Update 5/15

Edison's San Onofre plan could make things worse, consultant says [Updated]

A consultant who has criticized Southern California Edison's handling of the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant issued a report Tuesday saying the utility's proposed solution for bringing the plant back online could make the issues worse.

Plan to cut tube wear falls short at Cal nuke site

msnbc.com - ‎1 hour ago‎LOS ANGELES — A $670 million overhaul at Edison International's San Onofre nuclear plant in California was expressly intended to avoid the types of ailments that have sidelined its twin reactors. An overriding goal for a team of engineers who worked on ...

Boxer presses NRC on questions at Calif nuke plant

BusinessWeek - ‎

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD California Sen. Barbara Boxer is pushing federal regulators for details about the troubled steam generators at the idled San Onofre nuclear power plant. Boxer asked Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko Tuesday for ...

Activists' study doubts safety at Calif nuke plant

CBS News -

LOS ANGELES — An environmental group says that running California's San Onofre nuclear plant at reduced power will not solve problems with badly worn tubing that have kept the twin reactors offline for months. Southern California Edison this month ...

San Onofre Power Plant Study Finds That Running At Reduced Power Could Worsen ...

Huffington Post - ‎

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD 05/15/12 01:34 PM ET LOS ANGELES — California Sen. Barbara Boxer asked federal regulators Tuesday for details about the troubled steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear power plant, where a long-running probe into tube damage has ...

Edison, consultant spar over blame for San Onofre shutdown

Los Angeles Times - ‎18 hours ago

A document released Monday by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission shows that Southern California Edison informed the federal agency of a number of planned design changes before it replaced the plant's four steam generators.

 Report questions San Onofre restart plan

U-T San Diego -

Restarting the San Onofre nuclear plant at reduced power would not resolve issues of rapid wear on steam generator tubes that have sidelined the plant for more than three months, and might make matters worse, says an analysis commissioned by an ...

Running San Onofre on reduced power could worsen damage

KABC - ‎2 hours ago‎SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (KABC) -- There is concern about a plan to run reactors at San Onofre at lower power. In a report Tuesday, the environmental group Friends of the Earth said running the reactors at reduced power could make damage at the plant even ...

Fairewinds report blows off steam generator safety claims at San Onofre

89.3 KPCC (blog) - 

San Onofre is twisting in the breeze of the new Fairewinds safety report released by activist group Friends of the Earth. The study raises serious doubts about safety at the Southern California nuclear facility, and says running at reduced power will ...

 NRC Releases Missing Record on San Onofre Plant

VoiceofOC - ‎Federal regulators Monday

 New Report Reveals Scale of Edison Steam Generator Failures at San Onofre ...

WASHINGTON, DC--(ENEWSPF)--May 15, 2012. Southern California Edison avoided federal regulatory guidelines when replacing defective steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear power plant -- a costly mistake that can't be fixed by plugging the tubes that ...