Re: [californiadisasters] Minor, Non-Nuclear ‘Emergency’ at San Onofre

If only our oil rigs required this level of redundancy and notification...

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:46 PM, newnethboy <kef413@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is exactly the type of thing that makes me feel pretty comfortable with
> nuclear power.
>
> If our cars were this safe, if our airlines were this safe....
>
> Notice that this all-but-meaningless event still had to be reported to the
> NRC. This is about on the level of having to go to the nearest CHP office to
> get a clearance when you've found a tire a few pounds low and have
> re-inflated it (and having to report it without even having been stopped for
> it).
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kim Noyes" <kimnoyes@gmail.com>
> To: "CaliforniaDisasters" <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 11:49 AM
> Subject: [californiadisasters] Minor, Non-Nuclear 'Emergency' at San Onofre
>
>
> Minor, non-nuclear 'emergency' at San Onofre July 16th, 2011, 2:56 pm ·
> posted by Pat Brennan, O.C. Register science, environment editorOne of
> several redundant security systems involved in monitoring the perimeter of
> the San Onofre nuclear
> plant<http://www.sce.com/PowerandEnvironment/PowerGeneration/SanOnofreNuclea
> rGeneratingStation/default.htm?goto=songs>stopped
> working for 45 minutes early Saturday, triggering the declaration of
> an "unusual event" that is considered the lowest level of emergency.
>
> Southern California Edison <http://www.sce.com/default.htm>, the plant's
> operators, did not release details of the incident or describe the type of
> equipment involved, but Edison spokesman Gil Alexander said the system was
> not related to nuclear operations and no part of the plant's perimeter was
> left unguarded.
>
> "At no time was there an issue of plant security or safety," Alexander said.
> "At no time was the plant unsafe or the public unprotected. Nevertheless,
> when you're talking about a nuclear plant, you want all of the multiple
> redundant systems working all the time."
>
> The "unusual event" declaration required immediate notification of the
> Nuclear Regulatory Commission, he said.
>
> "The senior NRC resident inspector is on the scene, observing how we handled
> this," Alexander said.
>
> The system stopped working at 6:12 a.m. Although it was restored within 45
> minutes, the plant remained on unusual event status until 9:50 a.m., he
> said.
>
> Edison officials were still trying to determine the cause of the failure
> Saturday afternoon.
>
> "We continue to run diagnostics and investigate what the cause of it was,"
> Alexander said. "And we don't have anything we can convey thus far on that."
>
> Unusual events have happened before at San Onofre, and at other nuclear
> plants, he said.
>
> It is the lowest of four emergency classifications. The highest of them
> would indicate a release of radiation.
> Source:
> http://sciencedude.ocregister.com/2011/07/16/minor-non-nuclear-emergency-at-
> san-onofre/132533/
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