Published: August 3rd, 2012 at 2:19 am ET
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Title: Shhh… don’t tell!
Source: Fairewinds Energy Education
Author: Patrick’s Blog
Fairewinds Associates was sent a leaked Southern California Edison email informing San Onofre employees it is against company policy to leak documents to Fairewinds.
Subject: Fw: CLARIFICATION REGARDING RECENT NEWS COVERAGE OF OUR PLANT STATUSSubject: CLARIFICATION REGARDING RECENT NEWS COVERAGE OF OUR PLANT STATUS
To: All SONGS Employees and Contractors
Yesterday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) posted additional data on its website regarding our steam generator tubes for Units 2 and 3. This has generated an additional news cycle regarding our plant’s status. Specifically, the data reflects the type and amount of tube wear we have found on the steam generator tubes. The request for more information about the tube wear came from the public at our June 18 Augmented Inspection Team exit meeting with the NRC. The data includes various types of wear, and shows that most of the wear was less than 20 percent, which is far below the required plugging limit of 35 percent, and the majority of the wear is related to support structures.
While this is the first time this data has been released to the general public, it is the exact same data we have been providing to the NRC and our industry experts all along as we have conducted our inspections, analyses and our root cause evaluations. It provides the basis for our conservative decision-making and our approach moving forward for the repair plans.
Also yesterday, Friends of the Earth (FOE) released another study by Fairewinds Associates regarding issues with our steam generator tubes as compared to the industry. It is disheartening to see they are using “a leaked Southern California Edison document” as part of their source data, which is our first root cause evaluation for the Unit 3 steam generators. It is unfortunate, as this document is a critical piece of our return-to-service plans that are still being evaluated and challenged. As a reminder, it is against our company policy to release company documents to the media or other third-party stakeholders.
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Published: August 3rd, 2012 at 2:19 am ET
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I see, it is against company policy to tell the truth. Typical nukers. Lying is essential to their operations.
Now back at Vogtle….the nuke pimps are fighting each other over cost overruns, awesome, nuke make no economic sense. Only a bronto industry now fighting itself in it's death throes. Yeah, another win for humans!
http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2012/08/westinghouse-shaw-sue-over-additional-nuclear-construction-costs.html
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Thanks, Stock. Good link for source of industry insider news. Thinking it's probably a good idea to start scanning nuke industry news, your source, for news tips to share with Admin, here.
Nuclear Power International industry news online
Example: http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2012/07/tepco-receives-12-8-bn-government-bailout.html
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So you think it's disheartening to find some of your employees might actually have a conscience?
Awwww…..
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"Truth is not the friend of nuke" – not just a slogan any more – it's industry policy.
"As a reminder, it is against our company policy to release company documents to the media or other third-party stakeholders."
"Stakeholders" indeed – they are brazen enough to acknowledge that they will withhold information from stakeholders. Not idle observers with nothing to lose – stakeholders!
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"…The data includes various types of wear, and shows that most of the wear was less than 20 percent, which is far below the required plugging limit of 35 percent, and the majority of the wear is related to support structures…"
Will they note the (2) brand new steam generators have only been in operation under a year before tubes meant for a lifespan of 30 years started failing, prematurely?
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No problem. A little Super-Glue, and they can go ahead with installing the MOX fuel that the plants were never designed to use.
Shouldn't cause any problem at all . . .
A little plutonium in your Wahoo's tacos, sir?
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Yes, and many of these rust buckets operating at up to 120% of design capacity.
http://www.thenation.com/article/zombie-nuke-plants
Zombie Nuke Plants
Christian Parenti
November 19, 2009
This article appeared in the December 7, 2009 edition of The Nation.
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A quote from "Zombie Nuke Plants" above:
"The real issue is what happens to old nukes. The atomic power industry has a plan: it wants to make as much money as possible from the existing fleet of 104 old, often decrepit, reactors by getting the government to extend their licenses. The oldest plants, most of which opened in the early 1970s and were designed to operate for only forty years, should be dead by now. Yet, zombielike, they march on, thanks to the indulgence of the NRC.
More than half of America's nuclear plants have received new twenty-year operating licenses. In fact, the NRC has not rejected a single license-renewal application. Many of these plants have also received "power up-rates" that allow them to run at up to 120 percent of their originally intended capacity. That means their systems are subjected to unprecedented amounts of heat, pressure, corrosion, stress and embrittling radiation."
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Incidentally, the article also discusses NRC organizational culture, NRC commissioners including Bill Magwood, and the Shaw Group, mentioned in one of the articles Stock provided a link for, above.
"A whopping good read" says nuke industry critic HoTaters.
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The world may be finally waking up to the dangers of nuclear energy but it may be to late…
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Yup, Stock, rambojim, et al. It's an uphill battle to get these a-holes to consider locking the barn door even AFTER the horse has been stolen. Not when there might still be a few sheckels to be squeezed out of ever gullible John Q. Taxpayer.
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Yep, worse than the financial cartel, as that cartel doesn't leave hot particles in your body, simple financial slavery is a lot kinder than the misguided greed of nukers, playing their little ego games at the risk of your health.
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The nukers R the financial cartel R the medical mafia; etc. and the games are ALL about parting us from our earnings. Beneath apparent complexity lies that same old story – we earn it; they take it away from us by force and/or trickery. What else are governments for?
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critical piece of our return-to-service plans that are still being evaluated and challenged
the machine is gone. decomission is the way to go
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To read this memo and accuse the writers of a lack of transparency, you're jumping the gun here. If I'm working on a project and it's still in process, I don't believe it's fair to grab one piece and broadcast that one part that is still under study. That's what this memo is trying to say.
Don't mean to offend, but there's enough difficulties in this mess without ninnies with trumpets. Let's make ourselves above that. Then we can really get some work done.
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I doubt this is a 'leaked' email, ncm. It looks more like a press release. There's too much information if you're telling the employees to STFU.
SONGS is a nightmare simply for the costs involved, and no one wants to pay for it.
OTOH, if they turn it back on without replacing the steam generators, it's a bomb waiting to go off.
Not that it shouldn't be shut down, anyway.
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2 NCM: Please read the information Beyond Nuclear has put out on the status of the SONGS plant, if you haven't already done so. So much for the "ninnies with trumpets" hypothesis.
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Whining little nucleocrats see their future 401Ks slipping fast.
A heroic whistleblower knows that:
"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead."—Benjamin Franklin
"If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself." – Seneca
SP: If many people know of a serious problem then keeping it a secret is not going to help resolve it.
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San Onofre puts the country in real jeopardy because the wind blows inland across the U.S. ..and California is on a huge fault line.
It must be decommissioned and replaced by a safe power plant. Otherwise, we all know what could happen.
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San Onofre and ALL of these Death Machines put the world in real jeopardy. Every single one of them has this insidious potential.
We also now know it's not if it could happen, but when IS it going to happen.
Risk analysis suggests catastrophic failure is imminent.
There WILL BE meltdowns!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SruTxZJyMkA&list=PL69D1BB4DB0D8F834&index=24&feature=plpp_video
(filmed before 311, amazing accuracy)
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Great vid. Thanks, ChasAha.
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You are right.
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"This has generated an additional 'news' cycle regarding our plant’s status…." – memo
I think they should call it what it is… a 'spin' cycle.
They hate back peddling, they hate embarrassing themselves and looking like incompetent liars.
They may be getting tired of these pesky cycles, this last nuclear 'spin' cycle has lasted for 511 DAYS! …with no end in site.
Since Fuku: 3/11/2011
511 days
16 months, 23 days
1 year, 4 months, 23 days
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Congratulations to Fairewinds, good work! Seems they are ruffling some feathers. I have heard a few people on this site knock Arnie for not saying more about the condition/dangers of Fuku. That could be considered speculation/fear-mongering and allow nuckers to discredit him. The Fairwinds teem must work within certain perimeters to maintain this type of creditability with the press and inside the nuclear world.
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Right when you become a lightning rod, you know you are doing something right….just have on your kevlar underpants.
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Dear Stock,
Right on! But, have been 'lightning rod' before, can you tell me where to purchase kevlar panties?
Aloha
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Blast Boxers!
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2010/10/29/kevlar-reinforced-underwear/
For the truly prepared!
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Or Arnie is being groomed to be the 'respected spokesman' for the nuke cartel. He never goes over 30, when the ambulance needs to be going 90 to save the patient.
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"All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly — right now." — (Buckminster Fuller, "Critical Path", 1981.)
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That is a bit too much to ask for, how about shut them all down for starters.
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I'm glad Bucky isn't here to see this. He knew.
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“Feasibility looses credibility when prevention is already forced into cure.” – Unknown from dark ages
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to the person who provided the leak..
thank you very much!
you are a hero and a person of honour and integrity.. good to see the nuke loonies do not speak for everyone in the industry..
peace to you and yours!!
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Whistleblowers! Yeah. Yeah. Obama doesn't like them either. They muddy up all the machinations of the rulers. But Fine-Dine- Feinstein, as head of the Senate Intell Comm, is doing her best to assure that it won't happen here again. She's got legislation in the works to make sure no one in the U.S. will ever reveal the truth ever again.
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If only Anonymous and hackers for peace to mention a few, have a go at the nuke shills..
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