Edison releases San Onofre records

[bananas]

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

The operator of the recently retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station published a trove of 3,200 pages of documents Wednesday related to its vetting of faulty replacement steam generators that crippled the plant.

Southern California Edison posted the documents to a public website amid disputes with the manufacturer of the replacement heat exchangers, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Edison is pursuing compensation beyond the $137 million manufacturer's warranty.

Much of the documents pertain to meetings between Edison and Mitsubishi staff dating back to 2004, including a special cooperative design team that set out to prevent the very problems that eventually sidelined the generators. Some documents were partially redacted because of proprietary information.

"The San Onofre Digital Document Library will help the public, elected officials and regulators better understand the history of the replacement steam generators that led to San Onofre’s closure,” said Ron Litzinger, president of Southern California Edison. “It is vitally important that we all achieve a full understanding of the facts."

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Read more: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/sep/04/nuke-plant-documents-aired/

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The documents are at http://www.songscommunity.com/library

[rootProbiscus]

1. Japanto US for this - Billions, US to Japan for Fukushima (or India for Bhopal) - $0.000000000000000

To be tried in a US court because that would only be fair.

[cynzke]

2. Always The Case.

We never hear about the problems unless someone releases documents or leaks. How can we trust nuclear power when the people running these plants do everything they can to keep problems a secret.