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Article: Owner of San Onofre, Calif., Nuclear Plant Reports Fish Kill.
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- North County Times (Escondido, CA)
- Article date:
- February 5, 2004
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Byline: Paul Sisson
Feb. 5--SAN ONOFRE, Calif. -- Tons of sardines learned the hard way that swimming too close to the San Onofre nuclear power plant's twin intake tunnels is a fatal mistake.
On Wednesday, Southern California Edison, which owns and operates the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, roughly 17 miles north of Oceanside, reported a large fish kill to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
According to company spokesman Ray Golden, 13,590 pounds, or nearly 7 tons, of sardines were killed when they were sucked into the plant's cooling pipes late Monday night and early Tuesday morning.
"They were large for sardines, between 8 ...