[vette6387]

Well, there was no reason to have shut down Rancho Seco in Sacramento. It was working just fine, but fell victim to those who view a nuclear plant as a bomb. San Onofre is an old plant, and was probably due for decommissioning. The idea that “there’s no money to properly decommission it,” is just SoCal Edison trying to escape their responsibility. Ratepayers got low-cost energy, they need to pony up now to close the facility. And we can thank Jimmah Cahta for squelching the fast breeder reactor way back when. That technology, as I came to understand it, was the way to “dispose of” the nuclear waste from the current generation fission plants. But we all know that Jimmah was a nuclear Navy guy, so he “must have been smarter” than the scientists of the time.

[Myrddin]

San Onofre attempted to refurbish the steam tubes. What they got was a steaming pile of crap. The new tubes were failing at a very high rate. See the NRC notice. If you consider the total cost of operation to include the shutdown costs, then the rate payers didn't get low rates. They got a balloon payment when the loan was called. So Cal Edison doesn't want the investors to bear any impacts for the closures. It's so much easier to nail the rate payers. It was a bad investment.

Carter is a jackass. His ill gotten "Peace Prize" will put a nail in the coffin of South Korea.