[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 
<https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-rob-nikolewski-staff.html>
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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