Most active plants in America are far past their intended lifespan, including this one.You base that on what? Your years of experience in nuclear technology and engineering? Didn’t think so.The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station provided baseline load and stability to the entire Southern California Grid for almost 30 years and if it been re-licensed would have done so for another 20 years.Nuclear generation is the most regulated and has more oversight then any other source of generation, the federal government, the state government, local authorities and even the industry watchdog all have a say in the continued operation and ranking of the plants ability to satisfy safety requirements. The re-licensing would have been based on destructive testing of key test pieces of the power plant to ensure the longevity of the components. Don’t expect you do know or understand, you would rather get your information from the sensationalist media and like sources.Compared to other sources nuclear is just as clean, cheap and safe. The fly ash from coal burning carries 100 times more radioactivity into the surrounding environment then what is emitted by a nuclear plant of the same generating capacity. Oh, and coal burning produces almost half of this countries current energy demand. Fly ash is dumped in regular land fills as well, not specially designed waste facilities. Ounce for ounce, fly ash waste from coal burning delivers more radioactivity to the surrounding environment then a similar load of nuclear waste in a shielded container. Waste that leaches into the ground water as well as being subject to distribution by wind and storm activity.The lack of knowledge and narrow sightedness is somewhat interesting, but not suyrprising.
Most active plants in America are far past their intended lifespan, including this one.You base that on what? Your years of experience in nuclear technology and engineering? Didn’t think so.The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station provided baseline load and stability to the entire Southern California Grid for almost 30 years and if it been re-licensed would have done so for another 20 years.Nuclear generation is the most regulated and has more oversight then any other source of generation, the federal government, the state government, local authorities and even the industry watchdog all have a say in the continued operation and ranking of the plants ability to satisfy safety requirements. The re-licensing would have been based on destructive testing of key test pieces of the power plant to ensure the longevity of the components. Don’t expect you do know or understand, you would rather get your information from the sensationalist media and like sources.Compared to other sources nuclear is just as clean, cheap and safe. The fly ash from coal burning carries 100 times more radioactivity into the surrounding environment then what is emitted by a nuclear plant of the same generating capacity. Oh, and coal burning produces almost half of this countries current energy demand. Fly ash is dumped in regular land fills as well, not specially designed waste facilities. Ounce for ounce, fly ash waste from coal burning delivers more radioactivity to the surrounding environment then a similar load of nuclear waste in a shielded container. Waste that leaches into the ground water as well as being subject to distribution by wind and storm activity.The lack of knowledge and narrow sightedness is somewhat interesting, but not suyrprising.