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SCE to Retire California San Onofre Reactors
Reuters ^
| June 7, 2013
| Reuters Staff
Posted on 06/07/2013 8:15:11 AM PDT by kidd
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To: kidd
It’s going to be a long hot summer.
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posted on
06/07/2013 9:02:14 AM PDT
by
Dogbert41
(Thy Kingdom come!)
To: edpc
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posted on
06/07/2013 9:03:24 AM PDT
by
markman46
(engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
To: kidd
Another bonehead move by the liberals. We’ll all be throwing spears soon.
To: Leaning Right
And then be an abject failure. Go greenies.
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posted on
06/07/2013 9:04:25 AM PDT
by
rktman
(BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST mr. president(not that we'd get the truth!))
To: kidd
This would leave Diablo Canyon as the only nuke plant left in California. I guess California is going to have to get used to paying outrageous prices for electricity, and live with rationing of power and rolling blackouts. I live ten miles away from a hydroelectric dam, and my electric bill is dirt cheap, and I will encourage the locals to make sure it stays that way by supporting the local utility.
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posted on
06/07/2013 9:17:19 AM PDT
by
factoryrat
(We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
To: kidd
Isn’t the People’s Democratic Republic of California running a bit short in power generate capability?
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posted on
06/07/2013 9:20:22 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it gettingthe so hot?)
To: txrefugee
With plentiful natural gas available in any state that is smart enough to permit fracking, nuclear power plants are obsolete.
I wouldn't go that far to say obsolete. San Onofre ran for 40 years. Nobody can predict that cheap natural gas will be available for the next 4 decades.
To: edcoil
The state flag features the Chinese red star and the Russian bear. The politicians are doing their best to live up to those symbols.
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posted on
06/07/2013 9:34:00 AM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Little Ray
I purchased a PC backup power supply for my room in San Diego. It will keep my cell phone running for days. Enough time to pack out and drive home to Idaho (where I'm currently sitting).
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posted on
06/07/2013 9:36:25 AM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: kidd
We need a video with the the Electric Nazi:
“no juice for you!”
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posted on
06/07/2013 9:38:21 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: hal ogen
Methane from beans?
(I'm sorry, was that racist?)
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posted on
06/07/2013 9:38:47 AM PDT
by
onemiddleamerican
(FUBO and all your terrorist buddies)
To: kidd
As long as they can replace with natural gas, combined cycle with 50% thermal efficiency; rate payers should actually save.
But to depend on one primary fuel source, that is not stored at the generating plant; is risky. Pipeline failures do occur and we know what it is like to make improvements on pipelines.
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posted on
06/07/2013 9:44:23 AM PDT
by
cicero2k
To: kidd
So, if I read the article correctly, the San Onofre Reactors were done-in by DC, as in the Washington DC-based Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The NRC did not reject SCE's plan to restart Unit 2 at 70% because rejections can be legally appealed. Instead SCE was placed in legal and financial limbo through the politics of process-paralysis and deliberate bureaucratic slow-walking. As a result, I don't blame SCE for simply saying: "No mas!" '
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posted on
06/07/2013 9:51:24 AM PDT
by
Trentamj
To: rktman
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posted on
06/07/2013 10:03:24 AM PDT
by
ecomcon
To: rktman
“...So, Im guessin coal aint on the list....”
Ummmmmmmm....no.
I worked out there for a few months on a couple of combined-cycle gas plants during the “Gray Slave-us” administration. We were at Moss Landing Power Station just north of Monterrey. They had a couple of old 1000MW oil-fired units there that they PGE had to convert to natural gas and take the de-rate on. PGE had to pay all the surrounding residents some kind of stipend due to burning oil. PGE had sold the site to Duke Energy.
So nuclear is now out, oil is out, coal is out.
Surrounding states should refuse to sell them power..and water.
When I was there, there were rolling blackouts almost every day. Yet, we still had to fend our way thru the plant gate every day because of a bunch of old hippie protesters out there every morning and evening.
IMHO, CA doesn’t even deserve electricity. I wouldn’t trade a square inch of south Texas desert for the whole damn state. I’ll never go back there.
If you’re conservative and live there, I feel for ya.
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posted on
06/07/2013 10:06:54 AM PDT
by
lgjhn23
(It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
To: Trentamj
Sort of.
SONGS, and three independent firms, had completed numerous safety evaluations that showed that SONGS-2 could operate at 70% power safely.
A member of the NRC (Emmett Murphy) looked at the license for SONGS and noted that it could only operate if the plant was capable of operating at full power. While operating at a lesser power is less of a strain on the plant, it was nevertheless outside of its license criteria.
SCE asked for a license ammendment. By law, such an ammendment is subject to public hearings.
Technically, the NRC followed the law. In fact, I’d say the NRC was leaning in favor of getting SONGS-2 to restart.
However, for reasons that I’m not clear about, the NRC was going to allow a series of public hearings on the SONGS license ammendment. SCE must have thought that spending more money to respond to public hearing queries would be prohibitively expensive.
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posted on
06/07/2013 10:07:44 AM PDT
by
kidd
To: Little Ray
Isnt the Peoples Democratic Republic of California running a bit short in power generate capability? Yes. They need a cool wet summer.
But even if that happens, there is no room for growth. Which screws up the state's long term economic plans.
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posted on
06/07/2013 10:11:10 AM PDT
by
kidd
To: Dogbert41
It’s only supposed to be 108° Saturday /s
To: edpc
To: EricT.
Somebody on ABCNEWS.COM said it was worth the upcoming black outs and increased electrical bills as long as we get rid of all nuclear plants. IDIOTS!!!!
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posted on
06/07/2013 10:23:44 AM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
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