Sen. Boxer On Fire re Wildfire Within 1/2 mile of San Onofre Nuke Plant
Channel: myla reson
Date: 2014-06-10

Following the May 14, 2014 wildfire that came within one half mile of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant in southern California,  U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer questioned the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Allison Macfarlane about Southern California Edison's requests to the NRC to be exempted from numerous safety requirements.

To the NRC's credit, in it's March 26, 2014 San Onofre inspection report, the NRC did cite Edison for eliminating 39 emergency response positions without obtaining NRC approval. 

The video is an excerpt from a June 4, 2014 hearing convened in Washington D.C. by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

For more information go to SanOnofreSafety.org

Many thanks to Joni Rae for making this video clip available for remixing.