I live 15 Miles from San Onofre.
The reason is it being shuttered is because the Replacement Steam Generators they installed, built in Japan by Mitsubishi, experienced premature failure of the internal steam tubes due to a design flaw that found its way into the two production units.
The location of the Plant has nothing to do with the shutdown.
Since we are SDG&E Customers, we are paying for the shutdown along with Edison Customers.
dear kick,
San Onofre was a hotly contested item, when i lived in SoCal over 25 years ago.
Now, let’s go across the nation, to Long Island, NY, for a moment. Look where Brookhaven Lab (which has a ‘smaller CERN’), is located and go north to Shoreham. That is where the nuke plant was supposed to be built.
The difference between San Onofre and Shoreham is that in SoCal, you had highways that could get you away from there. On Long Island, the roads run east and west, and to get OFF Long Island, you had to NYC, then go north across bridges to CT. But that was no good either, because the plant sat on the south shore of Long Island Sound directly acroos from CT.
As a former customer of the power company on Long Island, I did too.