"Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead..."

[SHRED]

(no offense to real witches)





San Onofre To Be Permanently Closed

SAN DIEGO — The troubles at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) are coming to an end. Southern California Edison announced Friday the company is retiring the plant's two remaining reactors.

The power plant has been offline since January 2012, when premature tube wear in the station's steam generators caused a small radiation leak.

Ted Craver, Chairman and CEO of Edison International, parent company of SCE, said the uncertainty surrounding the plant's future led to the decision.

"SONGS has served this region for over 40 years," Craver said in a statement. "But we have concluded that the continuing uncertainty about when or if SONGS might return to service was not good for our customers, our investors or the need to plan of your region's long-term electricity needs."

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jun/07/san-onofre-be-permanently-closed/

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Now let's get more rooftop solar!!

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[antiquie]

1. Hail Hail the Witch Is Dead, too bad

it's going to take decades to get rid of the body.

[JayhawkSD]

2. Not unalloyed good news

SouCal will face a power shortgage that will raise the cost of electricity, and while the utility has been maintaining a fund for the eventual decommissioning cost, it will likely cost far more than the fund has, and ratepayers will bear that cost.

I applaud the decision, but be careful what you wish for.

[antiquie]

3. We've made it this far

and SONGS was supposed to close eight years ago. There have been 100+ days since off-line. Yes, we will have some problems. Be careful what we wish for?

[JayhawkSD]

4. Yes, we have, but...

We've done so in a depressed economy and with cooler than usual summers. Even then, a couple of times this past summer we were close to the edge, and were buying power at rather high prices. It will get worse unless the economy stays depressed, which is not something to hope for.

There is currently $2.7 billion or so in the decommissioning fund, with estimated cost of $3 billion to do the job, which includes encapsulating 4000 tons of spent nuclear fuel. Everybody who thinks that the job will be done for less than $4 billion raise your hand.

"Be careful what you wish for," means we've been wanting this thing closed, but once that happens we may then be complaining about the result.

[antiquie]

5. The result is a safer California for my grandkids.

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SCE also hopes to recover from whomever is responsible for the bad computer modeling.
We will have some problems, of course, but I believe we have been through worse.

[Cleita]

6. Best news this month. Now if we can get El Diablo closed, it will be the

end of nuke plants in CA I hope. Time to take the utilities grids away from the private sector.