“THE COMMISSION WILL BE IN ORDER…”
ALLIANCE PRESENTS CASE BEFORE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION: SEISMIC STUDIES AT DIABLO CANYON–DOES PG&E EVEN KNOW WHAT IT IS LOOKING FOR AND HOW MUCH WILL IT REALLY COST?
These are the pressing questions raised by Alliance attorney John Geesman during a tense day of hearings. Read the dramatic transcript here:
http://a4nr.org/?p=2144
HEAR ATTORNEY JOHN GEESMAN DISCUSS THE CASE ON KQED RADIO’S CALIFORNIA REPORT….
Read about it in BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK:
http://a4nr.org/?p=2168
ALLIANCE QUESTIONS NRC CHAIRMAN GREGORY JACZKO AT SAN ONOFRE….The Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility had a meeting with the NRC Chairman last Friday after his tour of the disabled San Onofre Nuclear Plant.
The NRC approved of the replacement equipment at SONGS, and now they don’t work. But the Chairman can’t answer our pressing question: WHO WILL PAY FOR THE FIASCO AT SAN ONOFRE??
“Not one more penny for replacement steam generators. Not one penny for fixing them. Not one more penny for replacement power,” Rochelle Becker, Executive Director of the Alliance told the North County Times.
READ FULL PRESS COVERAGE OF THE ALLIANCE HERE:
http://a4nr.org/?p=2070
ALLIANCE TO LEGISLATURE: WAKE UP !
THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IS ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH and THE DIVISION OF RATEPAYER ADVOCATES IS NAPPING TOO!
Only a year after the Fukushima meltdown watch the Alliance’s attorney John Geesman and executive director Rochelle Becker as the ONLY CITIZENS SPEAKING UP at the California Assembly Utilities and Commerce oversight committee to let them know just how badly regulators are failing consumers when it comes to seismic safety and aging nuclear power plants on our coast:
Fukushima remembered...
read the editorials of the ALLIANCE on this anniversary:
For Diablo Canyon http://a4nr.org/?p=2017
For San Onofre http://a4nr.org/?p=2012
Fukushima prevented…
send an action letter NOW!
http://a4nr.org/?p=2022
BREAKING NEWS:
Alliance Wins Round One in Case For $64 Million Seismic Studies at Diablo Canyon
PG&E filed a motion to “strike” the testimony of the Alliance’s witness, Dr. Douglas Hamilton, claiming it was “irrelevant” and outside the scope of the Commission’s jurisdiction. The Alliance’s attorney John Geesman made a brief and eloquent defense of our case and the judge agreed, DISMISSING PG&E’s motion to strike. The case is ON and Judge Barnett set hearings for April 18-20 at the CPUC in San Francisco. Read the transcripts:
http://a4nr.org/?p=1982
Alliance at the CPUC on February 23….Outreach Coordinator David Weisman, left; Executive Director Rochelle Becker, center; Attorney John Geesman, right
READ COVERAGE IN THE NEW TIMES:
http://a4nr.org/?p=2003
Alliance files Testimony in PG&E case for seismic studies. The $64 Million question… Is PG&E even looking in the right places and how is the CPUC to know?
Press release:
http://a4nr.org/?p=1941
SCE SINGS THE BLUES SONG AT SONGS….
Ongoing saga of failing steam generator tubes at San Onofre reactors–Senator Boxer demands enhanced investigation:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/steam-339452-tubes-plant.html
ALLIANCE VICTORY AT PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION–
JUDGE REJECTS PG&E’s FUNDING FOR LICENSE RENEWAL !
Read the Alliance press release:
http://a4nr.org/?p=1880
READ THE LATEST NEWS COVERAGE HERE:
http://www.independent.com/news/2012/jan/05/diablo-canyon-cost-recovery-denied/
and
http://www.newtimesslo.com/breaking-news/7123/cpuc-denies-pge-diablo-funding-application/
What IF California lost its nuclear power plants? Does the state have a “Plan B” to deal with this? Read the probing essay by energy policy expert John Geesman here:
http://www.cacurrent.com/storyDisplay.php?sid=5833
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Once Through Cooling (OTC) at Nuclear Power Plants?? California must decide!
The State Water Board must decide how to regulate the use of Once-Through-Cooling (OTC) at California’s nuclear power plants. These reactors suck ONE BILLION gallons of ocean water per day through the heat exchangers, causing damage to the marine environment. By 2015, the state must decide if alternative cooling methods are possible to continue operating the plants. A draft plan for hiring consultants to do the studies needed is in the works, and the Alliance’s executive director, Rochelle Becker, was appointed on the oversight committee. To learn more about the effects of once through cooling, watch this 5 minute video clip from the Alliance’s documentary film featuring Dave Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Stanford attorney Deborah Sivas:
NRC held public meeting on Waste Storage in San Luis Obispo on October 6, 2011
The NRC held one of only three national meetings to get public input on plans for the environmental impact report for the revised Waste Confidence Decision. What issues and concerns arise with a plan to store waste on site for at least 60 years and possibly 300? The Alliance spoke at the well attended meeting. Read our comments here:
http://a4nr.org/?p=1707
ALSO ATTENDING THE MEETING WAS ALLIANCE BOARD MEMBER DR. SAM CASALINA, 
ASKING THE NRC TECHNICAL QUESTIONS…
ALLIANCE BOARD MEMBER FROM SAN CLEMENTE, JUDY JONES (right) WITH ALLIANCE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ROCHELLE BECKER AND OUTREACH COORDINATOR DAVID WEISMAN (left), AT THE NRC MEETING
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What can the state of California do to protect itself from aging reactors in dangerous seismic areas?
Watch A4NR’s Rochelle Becker explain our state’s rights in this clip from a new, multi-media investigation by journalist Sam Osborn!
In his new report, “Under the Influence–The Nuclear Landscape,” Journalist Sam Osborn of the USC Annenberg School of Communications has created an interactive investigative report on the influence of money and lobbying to forward the nuclear power industry agenda. He puts a special focus on the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and its consequences in seismically active California.
Read and watch the full report at:
http://usc.news21.com/sam/home
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NATIONWIDE PBS T.V. PROGRAM PROFILES SEISMIC PROBLEMS AT DIABLO CANYON !
“DOUBLE FAULT AT DIABLO” featured on
NEED TO KNOW on PBS
In a joint investigation with the Center for Investigative Reporting and Capital Public Radio, NEED TO KNOW brings you this Watch List report. See State Senator Dr. Sam Blakeslee, US Geological Survey Geologist Dr. Jeanne Hardebeck and California Energy Commissioner James Boyd discuss the troubling new seismic concerns at Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. This well researched story packs a lot of information into 20 minutes! Click the link below to watch the entire program:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/environment/video-double-fault-nuclear-safety-at-diablo-canyon/10457/
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