Diablo Canyon Handouts
Nuclear Waste Handouts
San Onofre Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dump in foreground. Above ground horizontal Areva NUHOMS dry storage system (51 thin-wall canisters began loading in 2003) located behind partially buried Holtec HI-STORM UMAX dry storage system (began loading 73 thin-wall canisters in 2018).
- Revoke Coastal Permits: Edison and NRC evidence cannot inspect or repair nuclear waste canisters, November 21, 2019
- Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Recommendations, May 12, 2019
- San Onofre nuclear waste system is a lemon and must be replaced, April 18, 2019
- San Onofre Nuclear Waste Problems, Tom English, Ph.D., Subrata Chakraborty, Ph.D., Rear Admiral Len Hering Sr. USN, January 2019 (11 pages)
- OneMinuteSanOnofrePresentation
- NRC admits San Onofre Holtec nuclear waste canisters are all damaged, November 29, 2018
- San Onofre Holtec Nuclear Waste Storage System is a Lemon, November 11, 2018
- Urgent Nuclear Waste Storage Problems and Solutions, October 8, 2018
- Spent Nuclear Fuel Fact Sheet
- Urgent Nuclear Waste Canister Problems and Solutions, September 30, 2018
- No Plan for Cracking Cans, August 9, 2018
- Correspondence with NRC regarding Holtec loading issues, August 31, 2018
- Save Trestles and our Coastline, August 4, 2018
- NRC NUREG-2224 High Burnup Storage and Transport Comments, September 24, 2018.pdf [Posted on NRC under ML18269A037] On-line version
- NRC Texas WCS ISP CIS EIR Docket NRC-2016-0231 Gilmore Comments, November 19, 2018
- State Lands SONGS EIR comments, August 30, 2018, D.Gilmore
- State Lands SONGS EIR comments, Samuel Lawrence Brief without attachments (15 pages), August 30,2018
- State Lands SONGS EIR comments, Samual Lawrence w/attachments (1586 pages)
- State Lands SONGS EIR Comments from D. Gilmore, August 8, 2018
- Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Fact Sheet with source links, June 15, 2018
- Comments to Holtec HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Project Docket NRC-2018-0052, July 30, 2018, D. Gilmore
- Why Thick Casks need at San Onofre, June 27, 2018
- Slide Presentation: Nuclear Waste Risks & Recommendations, July 7, 2018 (pdf)
- Nuclear Waste Storage and Transport Problems and Solutions, August 24, 2017
- Revoke Coastal Commission Permit, March 24, 2016
- Urgent Nuclear Waste Canister Problems, December 13, 2015
- High Burnup Fuel Unstable in Storage and Transport Short Fact Sheet, March 15, 2018 (explosion and criticality risks)
- Short-Term Failure Risks of U.S. Thin-Walled Canisters, Letter to ACRS (includes Koebert tank failures in 17 years), September 20, 2016
- Diablo Canyon: Conditions for stress corrosion cracking in 2 years, October 23, 2014
- Risk of criticality in dry storage if unborated water enters canister, comments for Docket ID NRC-2016-0238, NUREG/CR 2214 Managing Aging Processes in Storage (MAPS), December 26, 2017
- Risk of criticality in dry storage if unborated water enters canister, comments for Docket ID NRC-2016-0238, NUREG/CR 2214 Managing Aging Processes in Storage (MAPS), December 26, 2017 (NRC received version: ML17363A209)
- Management And Disposal Of US Department Of Energy Spent Nuclear Fuel, Report to the United States Congress and the Secretary of Energy, Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB), December 2017.
- Explosion risks at any temperature, ACRS Recommendations for Improvements to NRC Technical Study of Spent Fuel Pool Accident Risk at Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants, ACRSR-1885, April 13, 2000, (ML003704532), p. 3
- Facts in response to SCE responses to Surfrider questions
from September 15, 2017 (facts added February 19, 2018) - San Onofre Spent Nuclear Fuel isn’t going anywhere and is unsafely stored, October 18, 2018, response to Surfer Magazine
- The rate of crack propagation is strongly dependent on temperature… propagation [crack growth] can vary from 0.6mm per year at near ambient temperatures to >30mm per year at temperatures ~100 degrees C. Chloride stress corrosion cracking in austenitic stainless steel, Assessing susceptibility and structural integrity, UK, prepared by the Health and Safety Laboratory for the Health and Safety Executive, 2011 R Parrott, et. al., SK17 9JN (page vii)
- San Onofre Recall Handout 2019-03-19
U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Inventory
Thin-wall 1/2″ to 5/8″ nuclear waste cans contains roughly a Chernobyl nuclear disaster. They can’t be inspected, repaired, or maintained to prevent major radioactive leaks. They can crack and leak in the short-term
- U.S Dry Cask Inventory, Sorted by State (2 pages)
- U.S. Nuclear Waste Thin Canisters – Chart and Table,
- U.S Nuclear Waste Thin Canisters – Table
- U.S. Nuclear Waste Thin Canisters – Chart
- U.S. Nuclear Spent Fuel Storage Canisters/Casks loaded as of June 2013 (31 pages)
- Total U.S. Damaged Fuel Assemblies as of June 2013
Comments to DOE, NRC and others regarding dry storage issues
- DOE Nuclear Waste Plan risks major radioactive releases, May 3, 2016
- DOE’s radioactive waste storage plan risks “Chernobyl” size leaks
- Comments to DOE: Radioactive spent fuel storage plan is designed to leak
- Comments to NRC Docket ID NRC-2017-0211, NUREG-2215, NRC Standard Review Plan for Spent Fuel Dry Storage Systems and Facilities Draft, January 2, 2018
- Reasons to buy thick nuclear waste storage, January 30, 2015
- Reasons to buy thick casks with postcard suggestion, March 6, 2015
- Nuclear Waste Recommendations, April 1, 2014
Comments to NRC, Decommissioning Docket NRC-2015-0070 March 2016
- Sierra Club comments to NRC proposed rule for regulatory improvements for decommissioning power reactors, Docket NRC-2015-0070, March 2016
- Sierra Club comments to NRC proposed rule for regulatory improvements for decommissioning power reactors, Docket NRC-2015-0070, March 2016 (NRC ML16082A004)
- D.Gilmore comments: NRC Proposed rule for reg. improvements for decommissioning power reactors, Docket-2015-0070-0070, March 2016
- D.Gilmore comments: NRC Proposed rule for reg. improvements for decommissioning power reactors, Docket-2015-0070-0070, March 2016 (ML16085A368)
High Burnup Fuel Handouts
- High Burnup Fuel Unstable in Storage and Transport Short Fact Sheet, March 15, 2018 (explosion and criticality risks)
- High Burnup Fuel Long Fact Sheet, January 2018
- High Burnup Fuel – Pushing the Safety Envelope, Dr. Marvin Resnikoff, D. Gilmore
Years To Cool High Burnup Fuel Chart.pdf- High Burnup Fuel – Executive Summary
- Stop the High Burnup Nuclear Experiment
Illinois Handouts
Presentation Slides
- Living in the Shadows of San Onofre, RSF, April 6, 2022
- Minimum Dry Storage Requirements August 19,2020
- Holtec System Designed to Corrode and Crack
- Nuclear Waste – Risks and Recommendations
- U.S. nuclear waste dry storage canisters at high risk for leaks
- Dry Casks Storage Risks – January 18, 2018
- dry-cask-storagedgilmore, January 14, 2018.pdf
- dry-cask-storagedgilmore, January 14, 2018.ppt
- dry-cask-storagedgilmore2017-07-27.pdf
- dry-cask-storagedgilmore2017-07-27.ppt
- Dry cask storage: Cannot kick this can down the road, January 2015 (.pdf)
- Dry cask storage: Cannot kick this can down the road, January 2015 (.ppt)
- Diablo Canyon Minimum Dry Storage Requirements
- Diablo Canyon Nuclear Fuel Waste Unsafely Stored
- Diablo Canyon presentation at DCISC, October 19, 2017
Summary Fact Sheets – California Nuclear Reactors
- Reasons San Onofre should not be restarted — Facts Edison doesn’t want you to know
- Safety Summary Fact Sheet
- San Onofre or Diablo Canyon = Fukushima USA?
Safety Allegations (Complaints), Safety Culture and other Employee Concerns
- Safety Allegations (Complaints) 1 page (5 years)
Safety Allegations (Complaints) Charts 1 per page (updated 5/9/2013)- Safety Allegations (Complaints) non-operating 2007 to June 2015
- Safety Allegations (Complaints) operating and non-operating 2007 to June 2015
- Safety Allegations (Complaints) non-operating 2009 to June 2015
- FLORIDA: Worst nuclear safety complaint record in nation 2006 to 2015
Safety Allegations (Complaints) non-operating 2011 to June 2015- Safety Allegations (Complaints) non-operating 2011 to June 2015 Retaliation
Safety Allegations (Complaints) Chart, operating reactors as of June 2015- Safety Allegations (Complaints) Charts 2 per page (updated 5/9/2013)
- Safety Allegations (Complaints) Chart 2012 – all external sources (5/9/2013)
- Safety Allegations 2007-2012 Employees.jpg
Safety Allegations 2007-2012 Retaliation.jpg- Safety Allegations 2012 All Sources.jpg
- Safety Allegations Non-Operating reactors 2009 to Aug 2013 (2 charts)
- SCE Workplace Culture and Climate Assessment 5/15/2012
- UWUA Response to Edison Employee Reduction Plan 11/14/2012
- NRC sited San Onofre management for over five years of fire watch violations
Compare Electric Rates
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SDG&E, SCE and PG&E higher rates
Compare Residential Electric Rates 2014 (Southern California Public Power Authority)
Once Through Cooling
- OTC Highest Damage to Marine Life Chart.pdf
- OTC Highest Damage to Marine Life Chart.jpg
- WRCB Once-Through Cooling Policy Fact Sheet
Evacuation, Tsunami and Earthquakes
- Why more seismic studies are unnecessary at California nuclear plants
- OC Fairgrounds Emergency Evacuation Center
- Evacuation Map and Tsunami Inundation Map
- Earthquake Faults near San Onofre
- Forecasting California’s earthquakes for next 30 years (USGS)?
California has Excess Power Without Nuclear Reactors
California has Excess Power without Nuclear – No Blackouts- California has Excess Power without Nuclear – Chart
- California has Excess Power without Nuclear – Chart & Table
- Meeting California’s Electricity Needs Without San Onofre or Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plants, November 15, 2013, Powers Engineering
- CAISO prepares for another potential summer without San Onofre – 9/13/2012
- Prediction of rolling blackouts has not occurred – CNI 02/24/2012
Steam Generator Problems – Summary and Chart
- Steam generator tubes plugged by AGE and steam generator problems summary
- Steam generator tubes plugged chart
- Steam generator tubes plugged chart and steam generator problems summary
- Steam generator problems summary
- Steam generator tubes plugged by AGE chart (.pdf)
- Steam generator tubes plugged by AGE chart (.jpg)
Steam Generator Reports, Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Associates
- 7/11/201
2 San Onofre’s Steam Generators: Significantly Worse than all Others Nationwide - 1/16/2013 Presentation to NRC ASLB
- 5/14/2012 San Onofre’s Steam Generator Failures Could Have Been Prevente [Bad Vibrations]
- 4/10/2012 San Onofre Cascading Steam Generator Failures Created by Edison
- 3/27/2012 Summary – Steam Generator failures at San Onofre
- 3/27/2012 Steam Generator Failures at San Onofre
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Other Steam Generator Reports
Artwork: Jessica deStefano, Laguna Beach
The new steam generators are designed to last longer, said Mike Wharton, manager of the steam-generator replacement project. “They are designed for 40 years,” he said. “We expect we’ll actually be able to get 60 years out of them … better materials, better design. You learn over the course of years what works well and what doesn’t, and you try to build it into the next generation.”
Victor Dricks, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said the NRC has had a special team of inspectors on site monitoring the entire steam-generator replacement.
“We have reviewed their plan, observed their cutting into the containment and removal of the old steam generators, their replacement and the pouring of concrete last weekend to repair the cut containment walls,” Dricks reported. “A special team of NRC inspectors, including specialists with industry-wide experience in steam-generator replacement, have been following this project carefully. Their findings will be contained in a special report to be written early next year that will be publicly available.”
- SCE 1/31/2012 Unit 3 radiation leak event notice (ML12090A153)
- NRC Review of Lessons Learned from the San Onofre Steam Generator Tube Degradation Event, March 6, 2015 (ML15015A419)
- NRC OIG 10/2/2014 report on NRC’s lax oversight of licensee’s use of 10 CFR 50.59 process to replace SONGS’ Steam Generators, Case No. 13-006 (ML14276A478)
- NRC 9/20/2013 Steam Generator Inspection Report citing Edison violations (ML13263A271)
- Large Associates: Review of Tube Wear Identified in the San Onofre Replacement Steam Generators 3/27/2013
- Union of Concerned Scientists questions restart of San Onofre Unit 2 nuclear reactor 10/12/2012
- San Onofre: Far outside the norm, slide presentation to NRC, Dan Hirsch, 2/7/2013
- FAR OUTSIDE THE NORM: The San Onofre Nuclear Plant’s Steam Generator Problems in the Context of the National Experience with Replacement Steam Generators 9/12/2012 – Dan Hirsch, Committee to Bridge the Gap
- SMOKE AND MIRRORS: Analysis of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Augmented Inspection Team Report on the San Onofre Crisis 7/24/2012 – Friends of the Earth
- Inservice Inspections of Pressurized Water Reactor Steam Generator Tubes – NRC Regulatory Guide 1.83 (July 1975)
- NRC Management Directive 8.3 Evaluation for Steam Generator Tube Leak at San Onofre Unit 3 on January 31, 2012
- San Onofre may restart/Safety Complaints and Plugged Tubes Charts (5/18/2013)
- Keep San Onofre shutdown/Safety Complaints and Plugged Tubes Charts (5/18/2013)
- Improving like-for-like RSGs, January 2012 (Edison’s plan to avoid license amendment process)
- Petition to NRC Review Board: Submission by Friends of the Earth Supplementing Its 10 C.F.R. 2.206 Petition and Responding to SCE’s 2.206 Response, February 6, 2013 (ML13109A075)
Volunteer Information and Forms
Emergency Planning – School Districts
- Emergency School Evacuation Plan Issues – CUSD
- Sample Letter to Federal, State and Local Officials (PDF)
- Sample Letter to Federal, State and Local Officials (Word)
City Council Handouts
Other San Onofre Related Handouts
- CEC Chairman James D. Boyd 04/12/2011 U.S. Senate testimony – key issues
- NRC 03-02-2010 Chilling Effects Letter – Safety Culture Problems
- Threats posed by San Onofre nuclear reactors – Friends of the Earth
- Nuclear Emergency Response Program (CDPH)
- Independent Expert Speakers biographies (10/11/2011)
General Handouts and Reports on Nuclear Power Issues
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- Radiation Basics: Types of Radiation and Health Implications, Beyond Nuclear
- Leak First, Fix Later: Uncontrolled and Unmonitored Radioactive Releases from Nuclear Power Plants, Beyond Nuclear, March 2015
- Nuclear Power is Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive
- Routine Radioactive Releases from U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
- The Extreme Costs of Nuclear Power
- Factsheet: Radioactive Waste, Just the Facts: The Five Fatal Flaws of Nuclear Power, Public Citizen
- Radioactive Wreck: The Unfolding Disasters Of U.S. Irradiated Nuclear Fuel Policies
- Nuclear Power in France
- Nuclear Power and France: Setting the Record Straight – Beyond Nuclear Fact Sheet
- Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Dangers
- Got Water? Nuclear Power Plants consume vast amounts of water
- Thorium Fuel: No Panacea for Nuclear Power
- If not Yucca Mountain, then what?
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