Posted on 04/30/2013 8:03:29 AM PDT by RummyChick
SAN DIEGO - An inside source gave Team 10 a picture snapped inside the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) showing plastic bags, masking tape and broom sticks used to stem a massive leaky pipe.
San Onofre owner Southern California Edison (SCE), confirms the picture was taken inside Unit Three, but did not say when. The anonymous source said the picture was taken in December 2012.
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“This is the point of that photo”
The point of the photo is to take a benign subject and re portray it as something it is not in order to make a statement.
This is the kind of dishonest reporting I expect from leftist scum.
Dang,maybe an engineer that worked INSIDE knows more than you
Having been a steamfitter in my past life and working at oil refineries, nuke plants, and other chemical facilities, my question is this pipe on the nuclear (radioactive) side of the plant or the non-nuclear side?
If it is fresh coolant water on the supply side it is only water and is a minor issue unit the next schedule outage when the gaskets can be replaced and flanges re-torqued.
I was working on the then named WPPSS Plant 2 and we were installing a new piping system in the coolant water pump house that was going to be completely under water upon completion. This was 6 foot diameter pipe and, contrary to popular belief, was not perfectly round which led to hi-lo mismatch when fitting the pipes together to be welded. We had a disgruntled fitter who was going to be laid off so he contacted the site NRC Rep to tell him of this issue to save his job.
When the NRC Rep showed up with a few others in tow he asked to see the issue which we chowed him. And then the piping superintendent looked right at him and asked the question: Are you afraid of water leaking into the pipe or out of the pipe? NRC Rep left and so did the fitter.
Bottom line is if it only water, regardless of which side it is on, and only a minor leak, which this appears to be just a dripping issue, it can wait until the next outage versus taking the plant down, reporting it as an unplanned shutdown, losing generation during repair, and then going through the re-start process.
The picture seems to fit the explanation and sounds reasonable.
Not intended to stop a leak just divert the water that is leaking to a drain until the leak can be repaired.
“...So does this pipe actually carry contaminated coolant or is it just a scary picture?...”
Just a scary picture. Circ water lines are just what was stated: cold ocean water in, warm ocean water out. All non-radioactive. If it were “radioactive hot”, they would have to declare at the very least an “Unusual Event” with the NRC...and maybe more.
Dang, maybe you haven’t figured out that I have better things to do than argue with an over emotional ignorant twit.
I’ve made that mistake before. Sorry I don’t have time to play with you today.
Go ahead and have your freak out panic attack. You don’t need my help to do it.
Channel 10 has been following this
Have you worked for the NRC????
This guy has
I will go with more than one engineer familiar with that plant over you.
There is an insider WHISTLEBLOWER from that plant.
Funny how there are a lot of experienced people that have a reason to know that this is a dangerous plant.
And then we have you...that just wants to pretend everything is okay.
HAVE YOU WORKED INSIDE THAT PLANT?????????????
It’s all total bullshit!!!!
There is nothing unsafe at that plant.
If this was art one of the two active reactors it couldn’t hurt anything but it isn’t even at an active plant and there isn’t any radiation even in that unit,.
If there was a total meltdown at one of the active plants it still couldn’t hurt the public, all that would happen in a worst case scenario would be to lock the door and walk away.
I live 14 miles from it and as far as i’m concerned it should have been restarted months ago!
“There is nothing unsafe at that plant.”
There are engineers who have been inside that disagree with you.
Have you been inside??????
No, that’s completely unsafe. They need to use duck tape!
Btw, if someone has 25 years in the in nuclear field and is a safety engineer at a plant ..and he says there are major issues...
You would be a fool not to want more answers if you lived in the area.
Don’t ask for my tax dollars to clean up that mess that YOU advocate letting happen.
It’s not water that goes through the coolant when it’s fueled but what I find weird is that they use salt water for this system. I wonder how well the pipes and valves hold up.
I’d live next to a reactor, they aren’t unsafe, especially with what we have learned in the last thirty years (never let Jane Fonda or Michael Douglas near the plant).
We had a plant here in the Sacramento area, actually southeast of Sac but not far at all. When it was running the Westinghouse turbine kept having issues so they hand to shut the plant down to fix the turbine. I don’t think they had any nuclear issues although they had to scram the plant when the turbine shed blades. I even took a tour through it, we got as close as the air lock to the reactor containment building, it was cool. Nevertheless, the moron voters, voted to close the plant. Fast forward to around 2000. People wondered what it would take to restart Rancho Seco but it was already 50% de-commisioned. Idiots.
The “Antis” are often more dangerous than the “Pros” in any given situation.
With the Embridge pipeline spill here in Michigan a couple of years ago, the antis had created a situation where Embridge was afraid to look for or fix problems due to punitive fines and costs imposed for finding their own problems. Meanwhile the state hadn’t even had the required state inspector on the payroll for nearly a decade.
The Wolverine pipeline spill in Jackson Michigan was a similar situation. Wolverine was in the middle of a total system overhaul but hadn’t gotten to Jackson when the gasoline spill occurred. This led to the usual lawsuits and restrictions and with the millions Wolverine had already spent it was no longer feasible so they simply shut down and America lost another refinery.
“It’s not water that goes through the coolant when it’s fueled but what I find weird is that they use salt water for this system. I wonder how well the pipes and valves hold up.”
perhaps this has led up to the massive corrosion.
Time to get the glasses checked. I thought that headline said SEN ONOFRE. I thought the Dems were getting far more aggressive in trying to stop press leaks.
If you don’t live in the area shut your damn mouth!!!
LOLOLOLOL
You anti nuke freaks piss me off to no end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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