Thursday, April 4, 2013

SAN ONOFRE RESTART STORY BY RUSSEL D HOFFMAN-ANOTHER FUKUSHAME CERTAIN ON RESTART?

The DAB Safety Team: April 3, 2013

Media Contact: Don Leichtling (619) 296-9928 or Ace Hoffman (760) 720-7261

Titled: Concurrent Main Steam Line Break and Steam Generator Tube Ruptures in Unit 2 at 70% Power -

Which explains in detail why any restart at San Onofre puts Southern California at risk of a nuclear accident.

A complete five (5) part presentation (see the eight (8) titles listed below), which are posted on the web at this link: DAB Safety Team Documents. 

The DAB Safety Team has transmitted the following to the Offices of the Chairman of the NRC, California Attorney General and Senator Barbara Boxer’s Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW).

A great enforcement example: Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio. On March 5, 2002, maintenance workers discovered that corrosion had eaten a football-sized hole into the reactor vessel head of the Davis-Besse plant. Corrosion had been clogging the plant’s filters for months, requiring repeated filter replacement, but the cause was not investigated until after a worker leaned against a control rod drive mechanism, and it toppled over. Although the corrosion did not lead to an accident, this was considered to be a serious nuclear safety incident. Some observers have criticized the NRC’s Commission work as an example of regulatory capture [See Note 1] and the NRC has been accused of doing an inadequate job by the Union of Concerned Scientists.  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission kept Davis-Besse shut down until March 2004, so that FirstEnergy was able to perform all the necessary maintenance for safe operations. The NRC imposed its largest fine ever—more than $5 million—against FirstEnergy for the actions that led to the corrosion. The company paid an additional $28 million in fines under a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice. The NRC closely monitored FENOC’s response and concluded in September 2009 that FENOC met the conditions of the 2004 order. From 2004 through 2009 the NRC reviewed 20 independent assessments conducted at the plant and verified the independent assessors’ credentials. The agency also conducted its own inspections and reviewed FENOC’s reactor vessel inspections conducted in early 2005. NRC inspectors paid particular attention to the order’s focus on safety culture and safety conscious work environment to ensure there were no new signs of weakness. The NRC task force concluded that the corrosion, occurred for several reasons:

·  NRC, Davis-Besse and the nuclear industry failed to adequately review, assess, and follow up on relevant operating experience at other nuclear power plants;

·  Davis-Besse failed to ensure that plant safety issues received appropriate attention; and

·  NRC failed to integrate available information in assessing Davis-Besse’s safety performance.

Questionable enforcement at San Onofre by Region IV and the NRC: The papers shown below have been obtained from Public Domain written by Dr. Joram Hopenfeld and a former SONGS Employee based on his investigation of the steam generator issues, review of the plant data and discussions with several Key SONGS Insiders. These papers confirm that Southern California Edison wants to restart unsafe Unit 2 nuclear reactor at 70% power under false pretenses, just for profits, and as an unapproved risky experiment by subverting the NRC and Federal regulatory process.  The true Root Cause (See Note 2) of the unprecedented tube-to-tube wear in Unit 3 has NOT been officially established, as required by NRC Confirmatory Letter Action 1 for restarting the defectively designed and degraded Unit 2.  NRC has not even completed their review of Unit 2 Return to Service Reports, nor have they finished Special Unit 2 Tube Inspections, nor have they (publicly?) reviewed SCE’s Response to NRC’s Requests for Additional Information (RAIs).  Now, SCE wants the NRC to approve a new shady License Amendment, undermining public safety and do it without the involvement of Public Safety Experts/Attorneys and Citizens/Ratepayers.  After the review of the Mitsubishi Root Cause Evaluation and the Draft SCE License Amendment, it is crystal clear that the NRC needs to follow the example of their own enforcement at David Besse together with the lessons learned from Fukushima, when it comes to approving this new Shady License Amendment for restarting San Onofre Unit 2’s defectively designed and degraded replacement steam generators.  In light of the unanticipated/unprecedented tube leakage at SONGS 3, the health and safety, along with the economic concerns/objections of 8.4 million Southern Californians’ MUST OVERRIDE and PREVENT the restarting of Unit 2 at 70% or ANY power level.  In a Democratic Society, truth must prevail over profit motivations, misleading propaganda of electricity service disruption and/or projected probabilistic temporary inconveniences to the public based on phony data, because America cannot afford a trillion dollar nuclear eco-disaster!

Safety must override SCE profits and prevent Unit 2 from restarting.

Notes:

1: Regulatory capture occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.  Regulatory capture is a form of government failure, as it can act as an encouragement for firms to produce negative externalities. The agencies are called "captured agencies".

2. Human performance errors resulting from the negative safety culture of production (profits) goals overriding public safety obligations.

The complete five (5) part presentation (see the eight (8) titles listed below

Part 1, First Part  https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BweZ3c0aFXcFZGpvRlo4aXJCT2s/edit?pli=1&docId=1GcDuO0NvUdBBRVqCinM3Gr9bhmsJDCIbOg65rwdtjBY

Part 1, Second Part https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BweZ3c0aFXcFZGpvRlo4aXJCT2s/edit?pli=1&docId=1v_UcRLUlwmhtVDbftGcROPkF-cujiGa_-qjUJ7i2WIM

Part 1, Third Part https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BweZ3c0aFXcFZGpvRlo4aXJCT2s/edit?pli=1&docId=1yCOQ_diw8Qix1qG3j7MC6F2VfcqMoFOidxjJdIBpba0

Part 1, Fourth Part https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BweZ3c0aFXcFZGpvRlo4aXJCT2s/edit?pli=1

Part 2 https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BweZ3c0aFXcFZGpvRlo4aXJCT2s/edit?pli=1&docId=1wkyTGWUy0pIXjBXc91JWr6_ACB3d-AIQbuVVZtDRZvI

Part 3 https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BweZ3c0aFXcFZGpvRlo4aXJCT2s/edit?pli=1&docId=16VmGtq9oYGS2-bpR4nBt9d-YB21E2xrjFpIJoxFJ4s4

Part 4 https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BweZ3c0aFXcFZGpvRlo4aXJCT2s/edit?pli=1&docId=0BweZ3c0aFXcFMC1BNlpMeDQyM2M

Part 5 https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BweZ3c0aFXcFZGpvRlo4aXJCT2s/edit?pli=1&docId=0BweZ3c0aFXcFX2gxRDFCRW9CVzg

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The DAB Safety Team: Don, Ace and a BATTERY of safety-conscious San Onofre insiders plus industry experts from around the world who wish to remain anonymous.  These volunteers assist the DAB Safety Team by sharing knowledge, opinions and insight but are not responsible for the contents of the DAB Safety Team's reports.  We continue to work together as a Safety Team to prepare additional: DAB Safety Team Documents, which explain in detail why a SONGS restart is unsafe at any power level without a Full/Thorough/Transparent NRC 50.90 License Amendment and Evidentiary Public Hearings.  For more information from The DAB Safety Team, please visit the link above.

Our Mission: To prevent a Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster like Fukushima, from happening in the USA.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

CHERNOBYL FUKUSHIMA ONLY PLUTONIUMA !

CHERNOBYL 25 YEARS ON and FUKUSHIMA ONE AND A HALF MONTHS ON-

AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE FOR DEADLY NUKES

R. Ashok Kumar, B.E.,M.E(Power),Negentropist,Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal,299,Tardeo Road,nana Chowk, Mumbai-400007.

© 2011 Ramaswami Ashok Kumar

Key words: nuclear damage, forests on the same area

On the 25th year of the Chernobyl catastrophe the damage is still increasing. And Fukushima has been rated another Chernobyl. 20 km radius around Fukushima has been declared uninhabitable for humans.

But read:

http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011/04/25/fukushima-high-resolution-photos-prove-mox-reactor-no-3-core-and-spent-fuel-pool-exploded/

So its worse than Chernobyl.

In Belarus the whole of her area of 211000 km^2 is contaminated heavily. There is infinitely disproportionate damage caused compared to the utility of electricity generated from nuclear power plants which is not available to the public at large and is consumed entirely by the nuclear industry. A completely objective perspective shows that we must forgo the nuclear option now and shut down quickly the existing nukes. Nuclear electricity is just not worth the infinite price it extracts from life for all time for no benefit to society outside the nuke business.And this is true even when they operate so-called normally. Even during normal operations the 350 to 440 nuclear reactor stations around the world are causing 200000 cancer deaths every year. This follows from Gofman’s work in the seventies eighties and nineties of the last century.

Consider the alternative of forests on the lands rendered desolate by the nuclear industry: Consider Belarus: If on 211000 km^2 which is her area sufficient density of forests are grown, under practical considerations of ecology with reasonable diversity of species the power flow through it is 211000 gigawatts. Compare it to the poverty of 4 GW of Chernobyl power which would be used in the end really only to the extent of a few percent through final delivered goods and services. The multi input(sun, rain, soil, groundwater,wind) multi output forest would automatically non-clonally reproduce and last for ever! And people would be the beneficiaries in cooperatives managed to nurture in health the people and all other life around! What is it now- Belarus- a desolate uninhabitable unhealthy illness breeder for all time.

Fukushima: Similarly the agricultural land and the forests around have been rendered a deadly radiation zone for all time. The 20 km radius means as an alternative at least 1200 GW power flow, which would have been a thriving cooperatives operated gross nature produce full of life, happiness, songs and work for all time!

References:

Chernobyl: Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1181: 4–30 (2009).V. Nesterenkov and and A. Yablokov. Chernobyl Contamination. An Overview.

R. Ashok Kumar. Reforest Mother Earth to Live. See http://practicethevedas.blogspot.com/

R. Ashok Kumar. Energy Audit of Nuclear Programmes. See http://energyauditnuclearprogrammeindia.blogspot.com/

R. Ashok Kumar. Health Effects of nuclear programmes during normal operations. See

http://isisunveiledhenp.blogspot.com/

http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011/04/25/fukushima-high-resolution-photos-prove-mox-reactor-no-3-core-and-spent-fuel-pool-exploded/

http://enenews.com/professor-fractionation-probably-caused-much-higher-plutonium-ratio-busby-said-11-months-ago-that-fractional-distillation-of-the-plutonium-oxide-lead-to-a-nuclear-explosion-at-reactor-no