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Offline Elderberry

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American Military News by  Rob Nikolewski 2/2/2020

Seven years after the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station officially went offline, the eight-year process of physically dismantling the plant and knocking down the domes that have loomed over the landscape of Camp Pendleton for four decades is about to begin.

The plant’s operator, Southern California Edison, has mailed notices to about 12,000 residents in a five-mile radius of the plant that initial work will start no earlier than Feb. 22. The first jobs include erecting staging areas and temporary trailers in the plant’s parking lots and removing materials containing asbestos in the Units 2 and 3 domes.

By the time work is complete, all that will remain will be two dry storage facilities housing canisters of used-up nuclear fuel from the days when the plant still produced electricity, a security building with personnel to look over the waste enclosed in casks, a seawall 28 to 30 feet high, a walkway connecting two beaches north and south of the plant and a switch-yard with power lines.

The substation without transformers stays put because it houses electricity infrastructure that provides a key interconnection for the region’s power grid.

More: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/02/the-8-year-project-to-dismantle-californias-san-onofre-nuclear-plant-is-about-to-begin/

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The costs for the dismantlement will come from $4.4 billion in existing decommissioning trust funds. The money has been collected from the plant’s customers and invested in dedicated trusts. According to Edison, customers have contributed about one-third of the trust funds while the remaining two-thirds has come from returns on investments made by the company.

Providing for customers to pay for decommissioning is what windmill and solar operators need to have implemented for their installations the same way.

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Offline The_Reader_David

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Of course, if human-greenhouse-gas-emissions-induced "climate change" were really the "emergency" the alarmists claim (and most Californians seem to believe), they'd be refurbishing the nuclear plant and preparing to bring it back on line, rather than dismantling it.
And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was all about.