“The San Onofre facility was opened in the late 1960s and has been upgraded since then, although not without incident. Engineers at the Bechtel Group Inc. of San Francisco installed a 420-ton nuclear reactor vessel at the facility in 1977, only to be publically humiliated when it was realized that the plant was constructed backwards.”
Yeah, don't they have bad earthquakes out there too? On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > > > Blaze Spinnaker wrote: > > > > Another tsunami could come up and dredge all that out to the ocean and > currents will drag it over to the west coast of NA. > > > > > > What the West Coast should be terrified of … in terms of a potential > nuclear catastrophe - has nothing to do with Japan. > > > > http://rt.com/usa/san-onofre-plant-california-129/ > > > > “The San Onofre facility was opened in the late 1960s and has been > upgraded since then, although not without incident. Engineers at the > Bechtel Group Inc. of San Francisco installed a 420-ton nuclear reactor > vessel at the facility in 1977, only to be publically humiliated when it > was realized that the plant was constructed backwards.” > > > > This facility has been refueled perhaps 10 times by now. How much spent > fuel is really onsite? They claim 3500 spent fuel assemblies which usually > weigh about 1000 pounds each. That would be more than Fukushima, no? > > > > >
