Articles tagged with san onofre

Remaking LACMA. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will unveil a planned $650 million makeover next month that would require demolishing much of the current museum.
LACMA Director Michael Govan says a new design by Dutch architect Peter Zumthor – a Pritzker Prize winner – will redefine the encyclopedic museum for the 21st Century. To do that, the L.A. Times reports LACMA plans to …

Missing hikers. Another night has come and gone and there’s still no sign of two teenaged hikers missing in the Trabuco Canyon area of Orange County since Easter Sunday. A major search effort is underway involving dozens of family members, friends and volunteers as well sheriff’s deputies and personnel from the U.S. Forest Service and the California Emergency Management Agency. Authorities believe one or …

Saluting Buss. The Los Angeles Lakers are reportedly planning to hold a ceremony honoring owner Jerry Buss during tomorrow night’s game at Staples Center. Fittingly, the Lakers will play their biggest rival, the Boston Celtics. Buss died of kidney failure yesterday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center after a long battle with cancer. Team officials say the Lakers will remain in the Buss family. Jerry …

It’s been more than a year now that both reactors of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, between LA and San Diego, has been shut down.
Southern California Edison officials have been trying to fix leaky tubes in the generators there that led to a radiation leak last January and the discovery of even more leaky tubes.
The shutdown has emboldened anti-nuclear activists, who say the …

Dorner aftermath. No positive identification yet, but San Bernardino County authorities say they are all but certain the charred body found in the ruins on a burned vacation cabin is Christopher Dorner. Investigators now turn their attention to how the angry ex-cop managed to elude their manhunt. Dorner’s driver license and other personal effects were found in the burned cabin where the fugitive apparently made …

Sunset sign-off. Friends and admirers will gather today at the Griffith Park Observatory for a sunset memorial to public TV host Huell Howser. L.A. City Councilman Tom La Bonge says it’s fitting to hold Howser’s memorial at one of California’s best known landmarks because Howser himself was an iconic figure in the state. Howser, who died last week at the age of 67, was …

 
School shooting in Connecticut. A mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut has left 27 people dead. That number includes 20 children. The suspect is reportedly Adam Lanza, 20, who was also found dead at the school. LAUSD has released a statement assuring parents that students in Los Angeles are safe.
An emotional President Obama addressed the press, saying “I know there’s not a parent …

 
Donors revealed, mystery continues. California’s political watchdog agency says an $11 million campaign donation from an Arizona non-profit is the biggest case of campaign money laundering ever in California. The money apparently passed through two other groups before it was funneled to a California committee fighting Prop. 30 and backing Prop. 32. Sacramento Bee
Too close to call. On the eve of the election, more …

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San Onofre costs. The cost of flipping off the switch at the San Onofre nuclear power plant is now $317 million. That’s about double what the company reported in June. The California Public Utilities Commission has launched an investigation into the potential hit to ratepayers from the extended outage. Depending on the outcome, some or all …

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Obama comes to LA. President Obama is scheduled to jet into L.A. this afternoon for an appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Obama will spend less than three hours in the Southland before high-tailing it to Nevada to push on with his frenzied campaign schedule. Police are warning of traffic delays around LAX and …

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Political football. CBS Sports says Los Angeles should not expect the return of the NFL anytime soon, at least not next year. A league committee focused on bringing the NFL back to L.A. has ruled out moving a team next year and has lingering concerns about the feasibility of a downtown stadium. CBS Sports
Prop. 30 push. …

Southern California Edison’s website calls the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station‘s two reactors the region’s “largest and most reliable sources of electricity.” Not any more. Since January, both reactors have been shut down because of unexpected wear on thousands of tubes carrying water that transfers heat from the nuclear cores to generate power.  Restoration of full power won’t happen soon, if at all. But Edison …

The San Onofre nuclear power plant is shut down and likely to remain so, at least until what’s officially called “a serious issue” of leaking tubes has been resolved. If there’s a summer heat wave, will some big power users have to shut down? How likely are rolling blackouts? Is San Onofre earthquake safe, with a location resembling Fukushima Daichi? Also, stars of the …

The San Onofre nuclear power plant was shut down on Tuesday after a leak was detected inside the reactor. Officials say that the leak does not pose a health threat. The North County Times has been following this story and reports that there are signs of considerable wear on parts of the reactor. According to the paper, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman  said that …