Keep San Onofre Nuclear Reactors Shut Down

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Uploaded by FriendsoftheEarthUS on Apr 2, 2012

A new television ad targeting Southern California Edison calls on residents to let the utility know that their families come first -- and that it must not restart the troubled San Onofre nuclear reactors, which are currently closed due to serious safety problems.

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1. San Diego local TV news coverage

Video of tv news segment at the link, includes telephone interview with Edison spokesperson and others.
Note: "Fox 5" is the local CW network, not the Fox News Channel.

http://www.fox5sandiego.com/news/kswb-ad-campaign-calls-for-permanently-closing-san-onofre-2-20120402,0,840117.story

Ad campaign calls for permanently closing San Onofre

By Jaime Chambers

9:11 a.m. PDT, April 3, 2012
SAN DIEGO -- An environmental organization is running advertisements on cable television news channels this week demanding that the troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station remain shut down.

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Gary Headrick from San Clemente Green says “the ad campaign couldn’t have come at a better time.” Local activists have grown from a few dozen to over 1500, according to Headrick, all with the single goal to shut down the nuclear plant. With the power plant off line, now officials are looking at bringing other shuttered gas power plants back online.

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2. I live about 30 miles from the reactor and don't like it.

These San Onfre reactors, there's two of them, have been operating since 1977. No matter how well they've been maintained they're still old, worn, and obsolete from any perspective. If Edison does not want to close and remove them then they should completely replace them. Also the west coast is still getting radiation from the Fukishima melt downs.

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3. San Diego Reader

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2012/apr/03/tv-ads-debut-targeting-san-onofre/

TV Ads Debut Targeting San Onofre

Dave Rice, April 3, 2012

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The media buy comes while groups are making a final push to gather signatures to place the California Nuclear Initiative on the November ballot. The proposal would effectively end the bids to extend operating licenses at California’s two remaining nuclear plants at San Onofre and Diablo Canyon, near San Luis Obispo.

The shutdowns would be accomplished by placing a requirement that long-term plans for the storage and disposal of high-level nuclear waste be established before licensing or re-licensing nuclear facilities within the state. Since the plants’ opening, nuclear waste has been piling up in temporary storage facilities along the coast, including at a third plant in Humboldt Bay, which has been shuttered since 1976. For years a permanent disposal site had been discussed at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, but that proposal was shelved in 2009 and no new ideas have since come forth.

Also of relevance recently is the announcement by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the San Onofre shutdown, previously termed “voluntary” and “precautionary” by SoCal Edison officials, is now by mandate of the Commission.