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San Onofre nuclear power plant – many believe it’s not safe

Many of the 200 or so people who attended Tuesday night’s meeting didn’t buy any of [the speeches assuring about nuclear plant safety]….
Skeptics challenge San Onofre nuclear-plant crisis planners, Sept. 28, 2011, By FRED SWEGLES / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Five-hour meeting about lessons learned from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear-plant emergency is occasionally interrupted by critics who don’t believe the speakers’ claims that a similar event is unlikely here and that local plans are adequate.

After more than five hours of testimony at a meeting Tuesday night in San Clemente about lessons for the San Onofre nuclear power plant from Japan’s nuclear-plant meltdown in March, a few things were clear:

• Federal regulators believe a similar sequence of events is unlikely here but are recommending that U.S. nuclear power plants reevaluate and, if necessary, upgrade their ability to withstand earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, prolonged power failures and other emergency scenarios…

• Many of the 200 or so people who attended Tuesday night’s meeting didn’t buy any of [the speeches assuring about nuclear plant safety]….

 “We have to live with the possibility that we may be the next Fukushima with hot radioactive particles contaminating our families and homes, our ocean, our crops, our schools and playgrounds, our water supply and whatever else the plume encounters as it drifts across the entire country,” said Gary Headrick, leader of the environmental group San Clemente Green.

SEE A SLIDE SHOW OF THE MEETING HERE.

The meeting organized by the city of San Clemente attracted people from all over Southern California, some of whom decorated the Community Center with signs advocating a shutdown of San Onofre or a move toward alternative energy sources such as solar and wind.

September 30, 2011 - Posted by | general

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