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San Onofre Is Dead and So Is Nuclear Power
2013-06-07 22:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: From his California beach house at San Clemente, Richard Nixon once watched three reactors rise at nearby San Onofre. As of today all three are permanently shut. Its a monumental victory for grassroots activism. It marks an epic transition in how we get our energy. In the thick of the 1970s Arab oil embargo, Nixon said thered be 1000 such reactors in the U.S. by the year 2000. As of today, there are 100. Four have shut here this year. Citizen activism has put the nuclear renaissance into full...
Californias Damaged San Onofre Nuclear Plant to Be Retired
2013-06-07 16:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Southern California Edison has decided to permanently retire Units 2 and 3 of its San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, SONGS, due to premature wear found on over 3,000 tubes in replacement steam generators and a leak of radioactive material. Both SONGS units have been shut down since January 2012. Unit 2 was taken out of service January 9, 2012, for a planned routine outage. Unit 3 was taken offline January 31, 2012, after station operators detected a leak in a tube inside a steam generator...
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Edison to Permanently Shut Down San Onofre Nuke Reactors
2013-06-07 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The crippled San Onofre nuclear plant will be retired, its operator said on Friday, leaving California scrambling to keep the state's lights and air-conditioners on this summer even as it pursues ambitious plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Southern California Edison, owned by Edison International , said it would retire both nuclear reactors at the plant in the face of onerous maintenance bills and an industry-wide shift toward burning more cheap natural gas to feed the grid. The...
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Monday Junk Food Sales About To Spike In San Diego
2013-06-06 23:06:00| Beef
Five people on a 4-1 vote, operating without good science, eliminated 20% of the meat consumption by more than 130,000 school children in San Diego resulting in Meatless Monday in the school district. My View From The Country read more
State issues air quality alert for San Antonio area
2013-06-04 14:30:10| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has issued an Air Quality Health Alert for San Antonio and the surrounding area.
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