Kaili Richards, 6, of San Diego holds up a homemade sign during a nuclear watchdog group's news conference before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's meeting in San Juan Capistrano. The activists are against the restarting of the San Onofre nuclear plant. (Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles…)
latimes.com - by Abby Sewell - June 19, 2012
NRC officials give their first public account of their probe into the shuttered plant's problems.
Faulty computer modeling caused the equipment problems that are expected to keep the San Onofre nuclear plant dark through the summer, federal regulators said Monday.
Officials from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave their first public account of the initial findings of their investigation into the plant's problems at a meeting in San Juan Capistrano.
What they did not give was any indication of how long the plant is likely to remain out of service, saying there are still questions plant operator Southern California Edison needs to answer and more inspections the NRC must do.
The owners of the San Onofre nuclear power plant in Southern California, which has been shut since January 2012, said on Friday that they would close it permanently because of uncertainty over when it could be reopened.
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