San Onofre Radioactive Waste Storage Plan (Public Comments P1&2)
Channel: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 09/11/2015

Members of the public comment on Edison's San Onofre radwaste storage plan in this excerpt from the California Coastal Commission's Oct. 6, 2015 meeting. If approved, the plan could set a model for radwaste storage at nuclear facilities across the country.
Public Comments - Pt. 1 https://youtu.be/qBaZx3_S5Po
Public Comments - Pt. 2 https://youtu.be/8ZfegkQ25CE
Commission Vote & Citizen Responses https://youtu.be/YsW6ip8K60w
For more information:
http://SanOnofreSafety.org 
http://CitizensOversight.org 
http://SanClementeGreen.org 
http://SecureNuclearWaste.com 
San Onofre nuclear reactors have been shutdown since January 31, 2012 and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) concluded Southern California Edison was at fault. 
HoltecHI-STORM-UMAX-AirFlow

Holtec UMAX storage system has air vents. Thin-walled canister (green cylinder) can leak radiation into the environment.

Edison plans to make another bad decision by unsafely storing over 1600 metric tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste.

Other nuclear plants in the country are doing the same thing.

The San Onofre shutdown resulted from decades of excessive wear in both reactors’ (Units 2 and 3) new steam generator tubes, which resulted in a steam generator radiation tube leak on Unit 3 on January 31, 2012.  The NRC concluded Edison was at fault: “…a significant design deficiency in replacement steam generators, resulting in rapid tube wear of a type never before seen in recirculating steam generators.”  In the NRC’s December 23, 2013 http://tinyurl.com/q4upy5e NRC Notice of Violation to Edison, the NRC stated: “…design control measures were not established to provide for verifying or checking the adequacy of certain designs.”

The failed steam generator multi-billion dollar boondoggle is about to be repeated with Edison’s decision to purchase the Holtec HI-STORM UMAX inferior thin canister storage system that may crack within a few years.

    Thin canisters can crack, but cannot be inspected, repaired or maintained and have no early warning system.
        A Diablo Canyon canister located in a similar marine environment has all the conditions for cracking in a 2-year old canister.
        A similar container at the Koeberg nuclear plant leaked in 17 years.  
        San Onofre has 51 existing canisters and began loading them in 2003.
    Cracked canisters cannot be transported. 
       http://tinyurl.com/oefby62 NRC Regulation 10 CFR § 71.85 Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Materials. Preliminary determinations. Before the first use of any packaging for the shipment of licensed material — (a) The certificate holder shall ascertain that there are no cracks, pinholes, uncontrolled voids, or other defects that could significantly reduce the effectiveness of the packaging.
       http://tinyurl.com/nvjxch3 NRC Certificate of Compliance NUHOMS-MP197HB, Certificate 9302, April 23, 2014 (ML14114A099), Page 17, “For any DSC [Dry Storage Canister] that has been used in storage, the condition of the DSC must be evaluated, prior to transportation, to verify that the integrity of the canister is maintained.”
    Edison is ignoring this data and plans to purchase a Holtec dry storage system that cannot be inspected, repaired or maintained.  
    Edison has no plans or funding to deal with leaking or cracking canisters.
    Each canister contains more radiation than released from Chernobyl.

It is up to the public to stop this. Learn more and get involved. On this website you will find government and scientific sourced documents that can be used to inform others. Whether you live in California or in other states with nuclear power plants, this affects you, your family and your community.

The California Coastal Commission voted to approve a 20-year permit to install the experimental unproven Holtec UMAX underground nuclear waste thin canister storage system at San Onofre with critical “special conditions” that do not need to be met for years.  

Request Coastal Commission REVOKE Nuclear Storage Permit (handout) http://tinyurl.com/pqnuygw
Location of Holtec system. SCE
The Commission acknowledged the Holtec system cannot be inspected or maintained. The system is subject to cracking. Cracked canisters cannot be transported. Rather than requiring a system that does not have these critical flaws, they are accepting promises from Edison that these issues will be resolved sometime in the future. 

The Coastal Commission should only approve a permit for a spent nuclear fuel storage system that can be inspected, maintained, monitored and transported.

NRC: No technology to find cracks in Holtec thin nuclear waste canisters https://youtu.be/QtFs9u5Z2CA
More information available at the web sites listed above.