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.
(Excerpt) Read more at 10news.com ...
This is very, very, very serious...but I'm not willing to give my name.
Why would you completely ignore a Safety Engineer INSIDE the plant with more than 2 decades of experience???
I wondered at the fact that they use sea water. Now, granted, the plant was built on the ocean so I assumed that they got water there but I didn't know it wasn't de-salinized.
I mean it's a nuk plant, I'm sure they have enough energy to desalinate the water they need and if there's a life threatening occurrence, they can just use the sea water like in Fukoshima which, according to experts, rendered those plants unusable forever. Then again, I think they had salt water in the reactor containment vessels and the ancient design didn't use heat exchangers so the water that drove the turbines is the same water the was in the reactor. Great job GE. I hope they take more care in their jet engines. They certainly didn't in the washer we bought a few years ago. POS.
Wouldn't you want them to be concentrating on the major issues first?
Why would you be surprised at the unwillingness to divulge names.
Think Benghazi people might think twice???
What about those giving info to Beck????
You think there aren’t people who might endanger someone or at the very least create a hellish situation for a whistle blower???
Just ask those involved with Fast and Furious
I think you can do both.
Channel 10 asked specific questions about that repair.
They didn’t get answers.
Maybe it was only for a day.
But I doubt it.
Sounds a lot like the procedures used by Kongress to fix the deficit/debt problems.
Like I said, if you don’t live in So. Calif. Shut your god damn mouth!!!
In the military, that’s known as an “field expedient.” Ah, that’s nuttin’. I once fixed the headlights on my daughter’s 1983 Eclipse using an old garden glove, a doggy toy, and a tennis ball. It was a thing of beauty. Wish I had taken a picture of it. You should’ve seen the look on the mechanic’s face when we took it in for state inspection.
The anti nukes force us to rely on old technology when new state of the art technology makes Fukyshima style disasters a thing of the past. Things like passive convection cooling don’t even require pumps or power to cool a reactor.
It’s my tax dollars that have to clean up after these disasters....that could be prevented.
I have no doubt that there are significant issues. I have no doubt that the owner would rather not fix them and just fire it up.
The question becomes corporate risk/reward.
It’s seen over and over again in Corporations.
Ford Pinto being one of the most famous.
If you have not been inside that plant you have NO BASIS to disagree with people who have the knowledge about it.
How are we going to defeat nuclear power if people like you keep making sense?
Also note that they had to say this guy was pro-nuk.
It sounds like resonance is causing the hundreds or thousands of little pipes to resonate along their length which weakens them. There are plenty of easy ways to change the resonance frequency but it requires new steam generators. Just increasing the pipe's diameter and thickness would change the resonance frequency to possibly outside its normal range of operation.
Force Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to replace these steam generators. I wonder if they deviated from the original design to either save cost (usually the reason) or newer alloys were supposed to allow them to change the spec?
“But in 2010, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission revealed that some San Onofre employees had told regulators they did not feel free to report safety concerns for fear of retaliation. What’s more, the NRC said that the plant had 10 times the industry median of complaints from workers
“That’s a huge problem for everyone in Southern California,” said attorney Maria Severson, who represents former San Onofre employee Paul Diaz. He said he was fired in 2010 after he came forward to his managers with safety concerns.”
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/jun/28/san-onofre-safety-complaints-remain-highest-worker/
“” Ford Pinto being one of the most famous.”
There is/was nothing unsafe about a Ford Pinto other than a smart talking swede shoe asshole attorney and a stupid jury!!!
The only tax dollars being used a San Onofre are that of the court system by you nuke freaks and the time they are consuming of the regulators.
i’m the one have to pay for the cost you assholes are creating with my electric bill.
SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think the steam tubes experiencing failure are on the reactor side of the plant so a leak or catastrophic failure would be bad.
They are inside the containment dome and the radiation can’t get outside it.
I am not anti nuke.
It is amazing that this claim gets thrown around anytime someone says that there are safety issues.
This plant has major issues.
Let me repeat, A SAFETY ENGINEER INSIDE SAYS THERE ARE MAJOR ISSUES.
Maybe he is wrong.
But the fact that he says there are major issues means that it should be investigated instead of burying your head in the sand and pretending they don’t exist.
Btw, there were issues with Ford Pinto.
There were internal emails that were disclosed INCLUDING a cost analysis of having to pay out for injuries and death due to the issue versus cost of fixing the known issues.
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