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Clean Energy and Clean-Up after San Onofre
Southern California's largest single source of electricity has been shut down. What will it cost to "decommission" two reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Power plant?
By Warren Olney • • 25m ListenSouthern California's largest single source of electricity has been shut down. What will it cost to "decommission" two reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Power plant? How safe is the process? Where will the power for 1.5 million homes come from now? Also, legislators call for investigation into sterilizations in prison, and after 36 years, the Voyager I is about to go where no spacecraft has gone before.
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Banner image: NCR Chairman Allison Macfarlane (2nd from R) listens as Southern California Edison executive Richard St. Onge (3rd from R) discusses one of the damaged steam generators at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Photo: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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3 storiesLegislators Call for Investigation into Sterilizations in Prison
In a story we aired on Tuesday, the Center for Investigative Reporting discovered that 150 pregnant women were sterilized in California prisons between 2006 and 2010 — without the required notification to top state medical officials.
Read the story6 minAfter San Onofre, What's Next?
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has two nuclear reactors under those big domes you see when you drive south of San Clemente on Interstate 5. Now that the power plant has been shut down , Southern California Edison needs new sources for one-fifth of Southern California's electrical power.
Read the story9 minVoyager 1 Approaches the Edge of the Galaxy
The Voyager I spacecraft was launched in 1977 — 36 years ago — and its still sending messages home. Scientists thought it would have reached the edge of the solar system by now, but it's 11 billion miles from the Sun and hasn't gotten there yet.
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