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DeSwiss

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Sat Jun 8, 2013, 02:50 AM Jun 2013

San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down For Good



MissingSky101·Published on Jun 7, 2013

Edison will shut down the San Onofre nuclear plant for good

    San Onofre nuclear power plant to be closed permanently

    By Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times
    June 7, 2013, 6:47 p.m.


Southern California Edison announced Friday it is permanently shutting down the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant, ending the region's four-decade venture into nuclear energy production.

The decision caps a 16-month debate about San Onofre's future but leaves the utility and state regulators grappling with who will ultimately pay more than $1 billion in costs.

One key question is whether Edison's ratepayers will see their bills increase as a result of either the shutdown or the need to purchase more expensive imported electricity to make up for what was lost from San Onofre.

Edison cited the mounting costs of the outage as the driving reason for retiring the plant.

The decision to close the plant for good means state officials must now move ahead with plans for a long-term energy future without the facility that once supplied power to about 1.4 million homes. The shutdown also means that 1,100 workers at the plant will lose their jobs.

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San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down For Good (Original Post) DeSwiss Jun 2013 OP
This is excelent news. darkangel218 Jun 2013 #1
Yes!! That thing is way past its useful life Warpy Jun 2013 #2
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Warpy

(113,130 posts)
2. Yes!! That thing is way past its useful life
Sat Jun 8, 2013, 03:05 AM
Jun 2013

and has been patched together with spit and Dixie cup lids for years. It's a time bomb waiting to go off and I hope the decomissioning comes with removal of all contamination to a more geologically stable area.

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