[Shutsanonofre] Victor steps down from CEP chair.
Ray Lutz
raylutz at citizensoversight.org
Sat Aug 19 13:15:14 EDT 2023
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-08-18/david-victor-steps-down-as-chair-of-community-panel-for-san-onofre-nuclear-plant
UC San Diego professor served on Community Engagement Panel for nine
years; replaced by Dan Stetson
BYROB NIKOLEWSKI
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AUG. 18, 20232:50 PM PT
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The organization that convenes meetings with the public to discuss the
decommissioning of the now shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating
Station, as well as the storing of 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste
and other issues at the plant, has a new chairperson.
David Victor is stepping down after nine years with the Community
Engagement Panel.
“All organizations need to refresh leadership, and I’ve come and done
the things that I hoped to do, which was to help put (the panel) on a
solid footing,” said Victor, who is a professor and co-director of
theDeep Decarbonization Initiative <https://deepdecarbon.ucsd.edu/>at UC
San Diego.
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Victor will be replaced by Dan Stetson, who previously served as the
panel’s vice chair.
Stetson is the executive director of theNicholas Endowment
<https://nicholas-endowment.org/>, an Irvine-based private foundation
that funds grants to charitable organizations in performing and visual
arts, advancement of science and education, and other partnerships.
Victor Cabral, a member of the San Clemente City Council
<https://www.san-clemente.org/Home/Components/StaffDirectory/StaffDirectory/763/345>,
will take over as vice chair.
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The nuclear plant at San Onofre, known as SONGS for short, has not
produced electricity since 2012 after a leak in a steam generator tube
led to its closing.
The Community Engagement Panel was created two years later by Southern
California Edison, the utility that operates SONGS, toact as a liaison
between the plant’s co-owners and the public
<https://s3.amazonaws.com/cms.ipressroom.com/339/files/20195/SONGS_Decommissioning_CEP_Charter.pdf>.
Hosting four meetings per year, the panel’s members consist of elected
officials from communities surrounding SONGS. The panel also includes
representatives from labor, tribal and nonprofit interests.
The Community Engagement Panel has no regulatory or enforcement powers
and members serve on a voluntary basis. Aside from the elected
officials, at-large members are recruited by Edison and the plant’s
co-owners.
Victor’s tenure came during “very, very controversial periods,” at the
plant, he said, adding, “I think (the panel) has been a particularly
useful institution and I’m proud of what we did and what we keep doing.”
One of the most notable meetings came in August 2018 whena worker for a
subcontractor at SONGS spoke up
<https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/la-me-ln-san-onofre-plant-20180812-story.html>and
described how a canister filled with spent nuclear fuel assemblies
almost fell while being lowered into its storage cavity at the north end
of the plant.
Edison officials later admitted toa “serious near-miss”
<https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/la-me-ln-san-onofre-plant-20180812-story.html>but
insisted the workers and the public were never in danger if the canister
had fallen. The incident led the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to
conduct a special inspection, which concluded that plant officials
failed “to establish a rigorous process to ensure adequate procedures,
training and oversight guidance” andfined Edison $116,000
<https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/energy-green/sd-fi-nrc-songs-decision-20190325-story.html>.
Though Victor is stepping down as chair of the Community Engagement
Panel, he said he will continue to work on nuclear storage issues. That
includes talking about legislation with members of the U.S. House of
Representatives and the Senate and chairing a working group consisting
of people across the country who live near active and decommissioned
commercial power plants such as SONGS.
“We figure that by getting a common message, speaking from the same
playbook as it were, and being very focused on how do you get spent fuel
out of these sites where it’s stranded, that we can maybe make some
progress,” Victor said.
The 3.55 million pounds of highly radioactive fuel at SONGS have been
placed into more than 120 canisters, sitting in the plant’s two storage
facilities.
The waste will remain there until the federal government finds a place
to put it. But the problem is not unique to SONGS.
Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the U.S. has a legal
responsibility to dispose ofthe roughly 89,000 metric tons
<https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/energy-department-seeks-towns-willing-to-temporarily-store-nuclear-waste/>of
waste that has accumulated at nuclear power plantsin 35 states
<https://www.nrc.gov/images/reading-rm/doc-collections/maps/isfsi-facility-types.png>.
A potential permanent facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada was shelved
by the Obama administration in 2010.
The Biden administration has been taking steps to find communities
across the country who may be willing to take the waste on an interim
basis for a still-to-be-determined number of years.
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has made two appearances at
SONGS in the past year, the most recent being in June when shetouted
initial funding of $26 million
<https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-06-09/getting-the-nuclear-waste-off-sites-like-san-onofre-feds-take-an-early-step-with-26-million-effort>to
get the ball rolling.
<https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2021-12-03/things-to-know-about-the-dismantlement-of-the-san-onofre-nuclear-plant>
Victor said his resignation as Community Engagement Panel chair is
“totally unrelated” to alawsuit filed earlier this year
<https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2023-02-28/decarbonization-utility-solar-lawsuit-ucsd-david-victor>by
the Protect Our Communities Foundation.
The local environmental group is suing San Diego County,claiming county
officials
<https://www.scribd.com/document/665857423/2023-02-27-FINAL-PCF-Petition-for-Writ-of-Mandate#>improperly
awarded a no-bid contract to theUC San Diego School of Global Policy and
Strategy <https://gps.ucsd.edu/>for a report on decarbonization that
Victor co-authored that the litigants say unfairly benefits the
interests of investor-owned utilities such as San Diego Gas & Electric.
“When you’re in the public eye and you’re doing things in the public
interest, people are always upset,” Victor said. “And sadly, some people
do that by going to court.”
The suit was filed in San Diego Superior Court.
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