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Radioactive Leak at California Nuclear Power Plant
The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday:
Officials at the San Onofre nuclear power plant shut
down one of the facility’s two units Tuesday evening after a sensor
detected a possible leak in a steam generator tube.
The Orange County Register pointed out:
After an unplanned, precautionary shutdown of a reactor at the San Onofre nuclear plant Tuesday,
a plant spokesman said Wednesday that a possible leak in one of the
reactor’s steam generator tubes could have resulted in a tiny release
of radioactive material into the atmosphere.
AP notes today:
A tiny amount of radiation could have escaped into the
atmosphere from a Southern California nuclear power plant after a water
leak prompted operators to shut down the reactor as a precaution,
officials said Wednesday.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Victor Dricks said radioactive gas “could have” escaped the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on the northern San Diego coast.
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The leak occurred in equipment that was installed in the plant in the
fall of 2010. The leak occurred in one of thousands of tubes that
carry radioactive water from the Unit 3 reactor.
However, the company has found damage to other tubes, Dricks said.
“The damage that they have found to many other tubes is unusual, and they are attempting to identify the reason,” Dricks said.
While the nuclear operator – Southern California Edison – says that
only a tiny amount was released, and would pose no health problems, that’s what operators always say after a nuclear accident.
EneNews points to the following videos of the Three Mile Island accident:
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Perhaps this is a good opportunity to remin all you nice folks--particularly California voters or those with friends and family in the Golden State--that there is currently a petition circulating to put a measure on the ballot that would effectively shutter both San Onofre and Diablo Canyon cancer factories...er, nuclear power plants.
It is an all-volunteer effort, so, once you sign it, get seven others to do the same, and have each of them agree to recruit seven other signees. It'll go viral the old fashioned way.
http://californianuclearinitiative.com/
And then they're worried about Iran... I suppose if you use their logic then Iran, China, Russia and India now have the right to invade the U.S. which is clearly posing a nuclear threat.
Nuclear Power (Great, in theory) + The Human Element = DISASTER
The regulatory commission was (I presume still is) astonishingly corrupt. I know engineers who were fired for refusing to falsify critical tests.
You wouldn't believe that anyone could do such a thing for a nuclear facility, but they did.
I agree, not even to mention what really happened on 911 according to 5000+ engineers.
[Jack Lemmon to Jane Fonda] "It's the welds! Look, you'll see, these are just copies of the SAME weld. They didn't even bother xraying them all. This place can come apart at any time and then we'll have a China Syndrome". [Jane Fonda] What's a "China Syndrome"? [Jack Lemmon] It's when the nuclear fuel can no longer be cooled and burns through the containment, then the underlying rock, finally hitting water and exploding. Sort of like a nuclear bomb". [Michael Douglas] Alright I've heard enough, we're going live on sticks in 10, 9, 8
Anyone else noticed the near complete lack of usage of the term 'meltdown' describing fuk-u-shima, yet that's what happened there several times?
The government is obviously behind it.
They want to keep shilling perpetual failures while lining the pockets of their contributors.
Come on George, how could you miss it?
LOL... some troll dinged me for reporting a fact!
Just watched a show on the Science Channel about the radioactive paradise known as the Bikini Atoll - 23 nuclear blasts and the sea life is thriving and NO trace of radioactivity in the water or marine life anywhere near the island, But.......just don't eat the coconuts.........
We are so effing ignorant about radioactivity it would be funny if it wasn't so serious.
Man is but a slightly more intelligent chimp with very dangerous toys...
'Scuse me, but when you say "tiny amount" is that in Human-speak, NRC-speak, or Fukushima speak. I need to know quick 'cause I'm downwind.
I love this retro video. We are so fked!! LOL. No seriously, I really think we are.
No, we're not just fked; we're fked AND fileted
Stuxnet.
Bigger fruit and veggies fron now on! I notice my Cali oranges are 3x the normal size....the spinach glows in the dark...and my Cali cousin just had a baby with 12 toes and 8 fingers.
"Change you can believe in!"
depends on your definition of tiny is as is is
Come on it's all good, East Cost power plants are the safes.. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42103936/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/t/what-a...
FWIW Dept:
This is my second post regarding "James Kennedy's" relentless push to change our Nuclear Energy Program from the use of "Uranium-235,... to Thorium as the 'Nuclear Reactors' prioritized fuel --- Thorium cannot "MELT-Down" a Reactor! http://www.thoriumenergyalliance.com [#5/20] ___ worth a visit.
It is virtually fail-safe. ___ versus today's dilemma ___ eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cermet ___ ***(Metal Fatique & Material's) ie. ___ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatique_(material)
Thorium {[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_element ]}is plentiful in the [ overburdening regulations hinders the mining of these precious 'Thirty' elements] U.S. amongst the few 'Rare-Earth-Elements" countries, in which China is holding the world hostage currently with 90% known resouces?
http://www.ontheissues.org/2004/Dick_Cheney_Energy_+_Oil.htm
http://www.realdoctorstu.com/2011/03/24/the-future-of-nuclear-power-afte...
"LFTR Reactors"
I have no skin in the game accept for 15 grandchildren.
thanks GW
Stopping paying your taxes will not work because the government will beat it out of you among other methods.
A friend of mine used to live in a country where you could make or defend claims from the sovereign through a jury of one's peers. But he is dead now, just like the jury system.
George, please go to this blog and scroll down to find the video of the nuclear scientist Arto Lauri. He has a theory that all these plant accidents are related to Fukushima. Another mindblower.
http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/
A little too mindblowing.
Arto Lauri is NOT a nuclear scientist! He was an electrician who worked at a Finnish nuke plant. He was let go because of schizophrenia. He has been booted off countless blog comments and forums(anti-nuke ones) around the net. His continued fucking craziness has legit anti-nukes cringing!
According to him the US attacked Japan with HAARP because Japan refused to join the US currency system. Umm....yeah, whateva'.
or Yoyodyne Industries:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=345uegSj-zQ&feature=related
John Bigboote, executive director.
It's okay, the politicians upped the levels on how much radiation is safe, so this "tiny leak" isn't important.
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Rocketdyne
another public-private winner (shambles)
our energy sector is a crooks carve-up. Sooner we have a free market (ie. no rules, no Govt) the sooner we get to an economic recovery (a recovery from the economic destruction caused by Govt and its behind the curtain monopolists)
Stop Paying Your Taxes
Zero Tax = Zero Govt
OMG! A tiny amount of radiation could have escaped into the atmosphere! We are all doomed!
Time to start gobbling down those potassium iodide tablets. But wait: potassium is radioactive too!
One thing I'll give you Yanks: you are far and away the biggest chicken wussies on the planet.
LMAO
Guilty as charged! Drove by twice today, this is ABSOLUTELTY a non-story, Move along, focus on the toxicity of our US CONgress.
...and no doubt it was our chicken wussie military that carried your country through a few wars.
Tepco discovers that 8.5 tons of radioactive coolant water leaked in reactor 4 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, somewhat higher than its initial estimate of 6 litters, but says none flowed outside the building.
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Japantimesonline
TEPCO officials should be put on international crimes against humanity list along with the Japanese government and the Japanese nuclear commission.
They should spend the rest of their lives in prison with rapists.
It's Ok the price of nuclear energy does not include the loss of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, a little conditioning for those brave marines, at Pendelton, that destroy elite enemies by using depleted uranium, can't be all that bad.
But what if these leaks are a false flag? Just the ones here, not in Japan.
Unusual damage to a system of thousands of tubes.
In other words, a potential unmanageable disaster of indeterminate magnitude, with an unknown cause due to recent improvements.
Gee, this is starting to sound all tin-foilly again. Just hope they don't shut it down over a weekend to install network cabling, or something equally illogical.
wonder if the contractor used cheap Chinese stainless steel tubing?
what if we just harnass all the hot air spewing from the politicians and mainstream medias mouths???? that should be enough to offset any losses in nuclear...
Professor J. Frank Parnell explains why it's pernicious nonsense that radiation's bad for you:
J Frank Parnell video (3:00)LOL
"Lobotomy isnt that for loonies ? Not at all, friend of mine had one...designer? of the neturon bomb...that'll show em.."
The power industry has been a monopoly/crony capitalist playground for far too long, which is why the bureaucrats will not shut down these antiquated designs. Improvements in nuclear reactor design and intrinsically safe fuel pellets have made the necessary steps to safe nuclear power, but the industry is too inbred and hidebound to raise the capital to upgrade. We will probably need a major accident (can you call it an accident when the agency empowered to protect us is intentionally dismantling the safeguards?) to stimulate the changes needed to provide safe nuclear power in the US. This is merely another major proof that we are dealing with a lack of leadership in our social/political structures.
Fishhawk
Our reactors are starting to break because there design wasn't a good one at the start of the nuclear century.
Yes another GE work of genius
flogging nuclear submarine reactors as power stations ...you would have thought Fukingshambles would have held together a little better under only 6 foot of water!
Time to buy those beaten down coal stocks. And NG as well.
as always, thank you george especially for pointing out how nuclear power plant operators are congenital liars - i was reading between the line :-o
...well, at least they did not build this one on the beach and a earthquake fault zone. LMAO!!! ...oh, oops again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FslgroEjQs&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AVGxdCwVVULXdQEDB_QbXwAb53WF5pOzCu
The NRC...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/20/national/main20072497.shtml
U.S. nuke regulators weaken safety rulesFederal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation's aging reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards, or simply failing to enforce them, an investigation by The Associated Press has found.
Time after time, officials at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission have decided that original regulations were too strict, arguing that safety margins could be eased without peril, according to records and interviews.
are a bunch of criminals.
Sounds just like the banking industry..."arguing that safety margins could be eased without peril" Yeah, but to whom? Oh, the Masses...riiiiggghht..
Yeah but weakening the banking regulations won't contaminate the land/water/air for the next few billion years if it goes wrong. With a nuclear power plant, it will.
Really glad I am out of the 50 mile zone ( at least I think). Hmm these little leaks are scarry. At least wtih a full blown meltdown you know to pop your potasium iodide pills. I got some after Fukishima realizing that if San Onofre had a major accident that it would be too late to get them.
Then there's this:
Reactor coolant leak, Brunswick County North Carolina (Shut Down Nuclear Plant #2 Mid-November 2012)
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20120126/ARTICLES/120129737
And this (Chicago):
http://www.youtube.com/dutchsinse#p/u/4/scf7C5xI6GI
But Ann Coulter says radiation is good for us...that's the "silver lining" in Fukushima...