Does Living Near a Nuclear Power Plant Increase the Risk of Cancer? The NRC has terminated an important cancer study so we may never find out By Roger Johnson, PhD About 47 million Americans live within 31 miles of a nuclear power plant (NPP) and 112 million live within 50 miles. About 2.5 million live within 31 miles of San Onofre. The 31 mile…
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In January, San Diego was hit hard with winter storms, funnel clouds, tornado warnings, King Tides and the sudden collapse of Sunset Cliffs. I just couldn’t help but wonder what had happened up at San Onofre State Beach Park, so one day on my way back from meetings in LA, I stopped to see for myself. Having lived in Laguna Beach and Dana Point, I was intimately familiar with the…
The cause of a leak in 2012 that led to the permanent shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was steam generators being deliberately run too hot, too hard and too fast, according to a report released Tuesday by an independent watchdog organization.
The “Warsaw Poland” notes are the smoking gun showing that the President of the California Public Utilities Commission, Michael Peevey, met secretly with Southern California Edison to craft a bailout of the failed nuclear reactors at San Onofre. The illicit deal was struck in a hotel room at the Bristol Hotel in Warsaw Poland. Nearly every one of the nine “deal points” was later ratified by…
Below are recent photographs of casks that are being stored at San Onofre State Beach from the now-defunct SONGS (San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station). If all goes according to plan, Southern California Edison, the owner of SONGS will store millions of pounds of high-level radioactive waste that’s deadly to humans for millions of years about 100 feet from the beach and a few inches above the water…
More than 72 transportation professionals attended the Women in Transportation Seminar on the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and the government’s plans to store 1.6 million pounds of deadly nuclear waste in steel drums 100 feet from the beach. The speakers discussed public safety issues, such as the fact that the steel casks are warrantied by the manufacturer for only 20 years, while the radioactive…