If the NRC voids this ruling they are setting themselves up for yet another investigation, which will lead to an enormous firestorm of public outcry; gone are the days of huge industry *Nuclear Baloney (NB) PR campaigns...
Remember Fukushima! America cannot afford a Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster!
Ratepayers want low cost, SAFE energy and Solar is now ready to provide it.
There are only three things standing in the way of FIXING our energy problem:
Our powerful Utilities, who want to keep us in Energy Slavery, so that we will be forced to purchase our energy from them instead of producing it ourselves for FREE (after the initial payback).
Our appointed regulators, who have a too cozy relationship with the very Utilities they regulate! They have been putting Utility shareholder profits ahead of following their sworn mandate and demanding that our "public" utilities provide energy to US at the lowest cost possible! Example: Why should Utilities be allowed to rip off residential solar panel owners by not reimburse them for the energy they add to the grid at the very same rate that the Utility pays itself when it adds energy to the grid? This would "level" the energy playing field and greatly reduce the payback periods of owning your own panels, which would make installing solar even a better deal!
Our Political Leaders are beholden to the Powerful Utilities because of large Utility donations and have been until recently hesitant to propose changes to "how the energy game is played" but now with a shrinking economy, the public resistance to ever higher energy costs and record Utility shareholder profits, energy is becoming a HOT political issue that Political Leaders cannot ignore any longer, if they want to stay in office or get elected.
Cont: We now also have another major problem, which is to determine where both our Federal and State Regulatory Systems of checks and balances failed, in order to make sure that something like this never happens again because the USA cannot afford a trillion dollar Eco-disaster. To do that, it is vital that we insure that all the investigations mentioned above are done publicly and not behind closed doors so that all of us can better understand exactly how San Onofre's debacle occurred, the names of those that are responsible for it and exactly who we should hold responsible for the restitution of all our financial losses.
First posted 06-08-13 N☢ San Onofre Gate* First, a salute to all of San Onofre's loyal workers at that have or will lose their jobs because of SCE Managements poor engineering decisions, everyone feels sorry for both you and your families, there is no good time to be laid off. We also feel sorry for all the local businesses and families that live in the neighborhoods located near San Onofre that will feel the effects of these job loses. Hopefully as many as possible of you can remain here by getting retrained by SCE, so that you can be retained or re-hired (along with many others) to decommission San Onofre a big job that we now know will last for many years and cost billions of dollars which will hopefully help jumpstart the entire southern California economy! To all those that are now upset, angry and/or worried about the future because San Onofre is being decommissioned, I urge all you to not focus your frustration upon those who protested by publicizing the many actual safety concerns at San Onofre but join with them and together lets all demand to learn much more about why San Onofre had to be decommissioned. We all deserve to know exactly who at SCE was responsible for their decisions to use unproven radical designed RSG’s at San Onofre that not only failed so quickly after being put into service but leaked radioactivity into the air we breathe, putting everyone in southern California at risk!
Because of this Corporate engineering debacle**, recently laid off employees, present employees soon to be laid off and all the ratepayers are now suffering while those that are responsible are simply going to change their retirement packages and/or enjoy their golden parachutes; they are the only ones that should be held responsible! The US Government, the NRC, the CPUC and the State of California Attorney General must complete all of their investigations into San Onofre, so that those that are responsible can be identified and we all receive the maximum financial relief possible from them. SCE, SDG&E, the CPUC and MHI must be instructed ASAP not to shred any documents relating to San Onofre; the public will not accept a San Onofre Gate cover up. No longer can SCE or MHI claim that they must restrict any "proprietary information" on any company documents relating to San Onofre since they are now going to be decommissioning it, along with its new unsafe Replacement Steam Generators that contain so many major design flaws. In hindsight, Southern California had a nuclear near miss on 01/31/12 and if we were not just plain lucky we could have suffered a nuclear accident just like Fukushima, because of the dangerous Replacement Steam Generators that were in use at San Onofre.
*First posted 06-08-13
**San Onofre will be remembered as both a nuclear near miss, and as an engineering debacle of epic proportions like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJ...
☢ Industry Trying To Retain Market Share, But At What Cost to US - Jun 14, 2013 - 10:26 AM
Get ready for ever more Nuclear Baloney* that in essence says the San Onofre was a fluke but all the rest of the industry is just peachy!
Big Utilities have big PR budgets so they are now trying to sway ratepayers back toward risky nuclear using a number of talking points like:
√ Nobody has been killed (yet) by nuclear, that we have been told about.
√ Nuclear is good for the environment, except when it leaks radioactive pollution for decades like Fukushima and the other nuclear accidents.
√ Required for base load to maintain the grid, which gets along fine when nuclear is shut down like it has in CA for a year and a half.
Lets cut to the punchline: If Germany can phase out Nuclear, so can the USA, the only thing standing in the way is the Nuclear Industry and their strangle hold on congressional Leaders that make our Energy rules! If people that installed rooftop solar got paid for their energy at the same rate that Utilities got paid for the energy that they generated (A Level Energy Playing Field) then Solar (of all flavors) would be installed everywhere, not just in Big Utility Projects! This would allow everyone to not only use Energy that they generate but sell back to the GRID (which we all pay for) for others to use! Ask yourself why the Utilities should be the only ones profiting from the sale of Energy?
Regarding Nuclear, the USA cannot afford the Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster RISK of one or more reactors melting down like the four did in Fukushima! Just because it has not happened yet in the USA is no guarantee that it will not occur tomorrow; that and the unknown costs of long term nuclear waste storage make nuclear no longer a good deal at any price, despite what the nuclear industry PR machine says!
I'm counting on the NRC to complete all its investigations into what was going on at San Onofre and especially how SCE was able to build their 465 million dollar RSG without going through a CFR 50.59 process, which includes public hearings.
Sweeping all the investigations "under the rug" will be a dis-service to both those that reported what was happening at San Onofre and to the NRC's role as a regulator to the nuclear industry!
The NRC should be issuing fines and or other types of enforcement as well a re-thinking one of its core beliefs that only one SG tube can ever fail at any one time which San Onofre proved could happen!
Ratepayers want low cost, SAFE energy and Solar is now ready to provide it.
There are only three things standing in the way of FIXING our energy problem:
Our powerful Utilities, who want to keep us in Energy Slavery, so that we will be forced to purchase our energy from them instead of producing it ourselves for FREE (after the initial payback).
Our appointed regulators, who have a too cozy relationship with the very Utilities they regulate! They have been putting Utility shareholder profits ahead of following their sworn mandate and demanding that our "public" utilities provide energy to US at the lowest cost possible! Example: Why should Utilities be allowed to rip off residential solar panel owners by not reimburse them for the energy they add to the grid at the very same rate that the Utility pays itself when it adds energy to the grid? This would "level" the energy playing field and greatly reduce the payback periods of owning your own panels, which would make installing solar even a better deal!
Our Political Leaders are beholden to the Powerful Utilities because of large Utility donations and have been until recently hesitant to propose changes to "how the energy game is played" but now with a shrinking economy, the public resistance to ever higher energy costs and record Utility shareholder profits, energy is becoming a HOT political issue that Political Leaders cannot ignore any longer, if they want to stay in office or get elected.
We should start a State-wide discussion about how to redesign our energy system so that it begins to benefit not only the shareholders of our Utilities but also ratepayers; remember it is supposed to be a public "Utility" which means that its primary goal should be to deliver safe Energy at the lowest possible price to ratepayers... Over the years this has morphed into providing shareholders the maximum return possible and that needs to be fixed!
Our energy model should be like Germany where the majority of their Energy comes from people not Big Energy, which keeps their cost much lower and (after payback) provides Energy freedom!
When it come to Energy, we need must start thinking ahead not backwards!
LNG and hopefully H2 should power the USA until we can go all Solar
Yes, as a country we should begin shifting toward ZERO nuclear ASAP for all the right rerasons which have to do with powering our planet safely without all the nuclear baggage that has the capacity to end life as we know it!
LNG and soon Hydrogen could together fill in the gaps until we have installed enough Solar (of all flavors) to power mankind's desire for Energy!
Sure it will not happen tomorrow but we need to start installing it NOW so that our energy future arrives ASAP, plus installing Solar (of all flavors) will help end the energy resource wars that are now plaguing mankind.
Give US solar energy freedom N☢T Nuclear energy slavery.
Germany is aiming for 100% renewable by 2050, why don't we?
CA has plenty of Energy without any nuclear reactors!
California has excess power without nuclear, according to data from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the electricity grid operator, the California Independent System Operator (ISO). Here is their chart showing that CA has a 20% (and growing) surplus of Energy without either El Diablo or San Onofre (which has been shuttered because of faulty NEW steam generators for about a year and a half) nuclear generators!
The California Public Utility Commission (who sets the rates) has been allowing the Utilities to rip off rate payers so they can reward their shareholders.
This practice MUST STOP...
Now is the time to demand that SCE (and SDG&E) pay us for the energy from our rooftop solar systems, (that we put into the grid) the same rate they pay themselves for the energy they put into the grid! This will reduce the payback period and encourage everyone to add solar to their roofs in order to gain energy freedom instead remaining an energy slavery to the Utilities!
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NRC Considers Voiding Key Ruling On San Onofre
If the NRC voids this ruling they are setting themselves up for yet another investigation, which will lead to an enormous firestorm of public outcry; gone are the days of huge industry *Nuclear Baloney (NB) PR campaigns...
Remember Fukushima! America cannot afford a Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define...
June 15, 2013 at 12:02 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
NRC Considers Voiding Key Ruling On San Onofre
Ratepayers want low cost, SAFE energy and Solar is now ready to provide it.
There are only three things standing in the way of FIXING our energy problem:
Our powerful Utilities, who want to keep us in Energy Slavery, so that we will be forced to purchase our energy from them instead of producing it ourselves for FREE (after the initial payback).
Our appointed regulators, who have a too cozy relationship with the very Utilities they regulate! They have been putting Utility shareholder profits ahead of following their sworn mandate and demanding that our "public" utilities provide energy to US at the lowest cost possible! Example: Why should Utilities be allowed to rip off residential solar panel owners by not reimburse them for the energy they add to the grid at the very same rate that the Utility pays itself when it adds energy to the grid? This would "level" the energy playing field and greatly reduce the payback periods of owning your own panels, which would make installing solar even a better deal!
Our Political Leaders are beholden to the Powerful Utilities because of large Utility donations and have been until recently hesitant to propose changes to "how the energy game is played" but now with a shrinking economy, the public resistance to ever higher energy costs and record Utility shareholder profits, energy is becoming a HOT political issue that Political Leaders cannot ignore any longer, if they want to stay in office or get elected.
June 15, 2013 at 11:49 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
NRC Considers Voiding Key Ruling On San Onofre
Cont:
We now also have another major problem, which is to determine where both our Federal and State Regulatory Systems of checks and balances failed, in order to make sure that something like this never happens again because the USA cannot afford a trillion dollar Eco-disaster. To do that, it is vital that we insure that all the investigations mentioned above are done publicly and not behind closed doors so that all of us can better understand exactly how San Onofre's debacle occurred, the names of those that are responsible for it and exactly who we should hold responsible for the restitution of all our financial losses.
June 15, 2013 at 11:48 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
NRC Considers Voiding Key Ruling On San Onofre
First posted 06-08-13
N☢ San Onofre Gate*
First, a salute to all of San Onofre's loyal workers at that have or will lose their jobs because of SCE Managements poor engineering decisions, everyone feels sorry for both you and your families, there is no good time to be laid off. We also feel sorry for all the local businesses and families that live in the neighborhoods located near San Onofre that will feel the effects of these job loses. Hopefully as many as possible of you can remain here by getting retrained by SCE, so that you can be retained or re-hired (along with many others) to decommission San Onofre a big job that we now know will last for many years and cost billions of dollars which will hopefully help jumpstart the entire southern California economy!
To all those that are now upset, angry and/or worried about the future because San Onofre is being decommissioned, I urge all you to not focus your frustration upon those who protested by publicizing the many actual safety concerns at San Onofre but join with them and together lets all demand to learn much more about why San Onofre had to be decommissioned. We all deserve to know exactly who at SCE was responsible for their decisions to use unproven radical designed RSG’s at San Onofre that not only failed so quickly after being put into service but leaked radioactivity into the air we breathe, putting everyone in southern California at risk!
Because of this Corporate engineering debacle**, recently laid off employees, present employees soon to be laid off and all the ratepayers are now suffering while those that are responsible are simply going to change their retirement packages and/or enjoy their golden parachutes; they are the only ones that should be held responsible! The US Government, the NRC, the CPUC and the State of California Attorney General must complete all of their investigations into San Onofre, so that those that are responsible can be identified and we all receive the maximum financial relief possible from them. SCE, SDG&E, the CPUC and MHI must be instructed ASAP not to shred any documents relating to San Onofre; the public will not accept a San Onofre Gate cover up. No longer can SCE or MHI claim that they must restrict any "proprietary information" on any company documents relating to San Onofre since they are now going to be decommissioning it, along with its new unsafe Replacement Steam Generators that contain so many major design flaws. In hindsight, Southern California had a nuclear near miss on 01/31/12 and if we were not just plain lucky we could have suffered a nuclear accident just like Fukushima, because of the dangerous Replacement Steam Generators that were in use at San Onofre.
*First posted 06-08-13
**San Onofre will be remembered as both a nuclear near miss, and as an engineering debacle of epic proportions like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJ...
June 15, 2013 at 11:48 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
NRC Considers Voiding Key Ruling On San Onofre
☢ Industry Trying To Retain Market Share, But At What Cost to US - Jun 14, 2013 - 10:26 AM
Get ready for ever more Nuclear Baloney* that in essence says the San Onofre was a fluke but all the rest of the industry is just peachy!
Big Utilities have big PR budgets so they are now trying to sway ratepayers back toward risky nuclear using a number of talking points like:
√ Nobody has been killed (yet) by nuclear, that we have been told about.
√ Nuclear is good for the environment, except when it leaks radioactive pollution for decades like Fukushima and the other nuclear accidents.
√ Required for base load to maintain the grid, which gets along fine when nuclear is shut down like it has in CA for a year and a half.
Lets cut to the punchline: If Germany can phase out Nuclear, so can the USA, the only thing standing in the way is the Nuclear Industry and their strangle hold on congressional Leaders that make our Energy rules! If people that installed rooftop solar got paid for their energy at the same rate that Utilities got paid for the energy that they generated (A Level Energy Playing Field) then Solar (of all flavors) would be installed everywhere, not just in Big Utility Projects! This would allow everyone to not only use Energy that they generate but sell back to the GRID (which we all pay for) for others to use! Ask yourself why the Utilities should be the only ones profiting from the sale of Energy?
Regarding Nuclear, the USA cannot afford the Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster RISK of one or more reactors melting down like the four did in Fukushima! Just because it has not happened yet in the USA is no guarantee that it will not occur tomorrow; that and the unknown costs of long term nuclear waste storage make nuclear no longer a good deal at any price, despite what the nuclear industry PR machine says!
N☢ More Nuclear Business As Usual,
Ratepayers have been ripped off enough.
*Nuclear Baloney (NB)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define...
June 15, 2013 at 11:40 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
San Onofre To Be Permanently Closed
I'm counting on the NRC to complete all its investigations into what was going on at San Onofre and especially how SCE was able to build their 465 million dollar RSG without going through a CFR 50.59 process, which includes public hearings.
Sweeping all the investigations "under the rug" will be a dis-service to both those that reported what was happening at San Onofre and to the NRC's role as a regulator to the nuclear industry!
The NRC should be issuing fines and or other types of enforcement as well a re-thinking one of its core beliefs that only one SG tube can ever fail at any one time which San Onofre proved could happen!
June 14, 2013 at 3:31 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
San Onofre To Be Permanently Closed
Ratepayers want low cost, SAFE energy and Solar is now ready to provide it.
There are only three things standing in the way of FIXING our energy problem:
Our powerful Utilities, who want to keep us in Energy Slavery, so that we will be forced to purchase our energy from them instead of producing it ourselves for FREE (after the initial payback).
Our appointed regulators, who have a too cozy relationship with the very Utilities they regulate! They have been putting Utility shareholder profits ahead of following their sworn mandate and demanding that our "public" utilities provide energy to US at the lowest cost possible! Example: Why should Utilities be allowed to rip off residential solar panel owners by not reimburse them for the energy they add to the grid at the very same rate that the Utility pays itself when it adds energy to the grid? This would "level" the energy playing field and greatly reduce the payback periods of owning your own panels, which would make installing solar even a better deal!
Our Political Leaders are beholden to the Powerful Utilities because of large Utility donations and have been until recently hesitant to propose changes to "how the energy game is played" but now with a shrinking economy, the public resistance to ever higher energy costs and record Utility shareholder profits, energy is becoming a HOT political issue that Political Leaders cannot ignore any longer, if they want to stay in office or get elected.
June 7, 2013 at 11:17 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
San Onofre To Be Permanently Closed
We should start a State-wide discussion about how to redesign our energy system so that it begins to benefit not only the shareholders of our Utilities but also ratepayers; remember it is supposed to be a public "Utility" which means that its primary goal should be to deliver safe Energy at the lowest possible price to ratepayers... Over the years this has morphed into providing shareholders the maximum return possible and that needs to be fixed!
Our energy model should be like Germany where the majority of their Energy comes from people not Big Energy, which keeps their cost much lower and (after payback) provides Energy freedom!
June 7, 2013 at 11:17 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
San Onofre To Be Permanently Closed
When it come to Energy, we need must start thinking ahead not backwards!
LNG and hopefully H2 should power the USA until we can go all Solar
Yes, as a country we should begin shifting toward ZERO nuclear ASAP for all the right rerasons which have to do with powering our planet safely without all the nuclear baggage that has the capacity to end life as we know it!
LNG and soon Hydrogen could together fill in the gaps until we have installed enough Solar (of all flavors) to power mankind's desire for Energy!
Sure it will not happen tomorrow but we need to start installing it NOW so that our energy future arrives ASAP, plus installing Solar (of all flavors) will help end the energy resource wars that are now plaguing mankind.
Give US solar energy freedom N☢T Nuclear energy slavery.
Germany is aiming for 100% renewable by 2050, why don't we?
June 7, 2013 at 11:09 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
San Onofre To Be Permanently Closed
CA has plenty of Energy without any nuclear reactors!
California has excess power without nuclear, according to data from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the electricity grid operator, the California Independent System Operator (ISO). Here is their chart showing that CA has a 20% (and growing) surplus of Energy without either El Diablo or San Onofre (which has been shuttered because of faulty NEW steam generators for about a year and a half) nuclear generators!
http://sanonofresafety.org/energy-opt...
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There is a simple reason that California has the highest rates in the USA!
The California Public Utility Commission (who sets the rates) has been allowing the Utilities to rip off rate payers so they can reward their shareholders.
This practice MUST STOP...
Now is the time to demand that SCE (and SDG&E) pay us for the energy from our rooftop solar systems, (that we put into the grid) the same rate they pay themselves for the energy they put into the grid! This will reduce the payback period and encourage everyone to add solar to their roofs in order to gain energy freedom instead remaining an energy slavery to the Utilities!
June 7, 2013 at 10:57 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )