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California Nuclear Plant's Odds-and-Ends Go to Highest Bidder

- March 28, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

SAN DIEGO - Hundreds of potential buyers are bidding on tons of tools, equipment and odds-and-ends from a shuttered California nuclear plant.

The auction at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station began on Wednesday and ends on Friday.

"We are doing what's best for the company, for the environment by recycling and reusing this equipment, and for the ratepayers by selling the equipment," said Paul Coughlin, a manager of financial and operational services with Southern California Edison, the utility that runs the plant. "There's a lot of well-maintained, useful and hard-to-find equipment here."

Prospective bidders in workshop uniforms, jeans and boots have come to bid at the 130-acre oceanfront property about 50 miles north of San Diego, and many more signed up online.

The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant in north San Diego County is seen on March 15, 2011.

The equipment ranges from four never-used 41-foot-long turbine heat exchangers to welding equipment, batches of sledgehammers, levels and eye-washing stands.

Much of the equipment up for auction came from the plant's machine shop, where storage casks for spent nuclear fuel were built to safety standards higher than those required, Coughlin said. Outside companies were not making such casks, so the power plant established the shop to build its own.

The more than 2,700 items listed in the Machinery Resources International auction catalog are all clean of radiation and were not used in radioactive processes, auction literature promises.

The plant once supplied power to 1.4 million Southern California homes and businesses.

The first reactor was commissioned in 1964. Southern California Edison announced its decommissioning in June.

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VIDEO: Robber drives away stolen van with worker inside

- March 28, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

VIDEO: Thief drives away stolen van with worker inside

1:00pm Thursday 27th March 2014 in News By Katie Mercer, Reporter

CCTV picture of it being driven away

A FAMILYS livelihood hangs in the balance after their van full of specialist equipment was stolen while a worker was still inside.

A 19-year-old window cleaner from Active Cleaning and Maintenance was in the back of the van, which was parked in Dawson Close, Accrington, when a robber jumped in the front seat and sped away.

The stunned window cleaner fell out of the rear of the vehicle as it began to move, and quickly jumped to his feet to chase it down the street.

The Ford Transit van was full of specialist cleaning equipment including a water tank worth 9,000 as well as power jets, hoses and ladders, all of which would have been worth around 20,000 altogether.

The firm uses the equipment to carry out their services which include window cleaning, power washing, ground mainten-ance, office cleaning and valets.

Without it, the family-run business will struggle to operate and Andrew Wilcock, managing director of the firm, has now issued a 1,000 reward to anyone who finds the van.

Jessica Dowling, And-rews daughter-in-law, said: The van was essential to our livelihoods and we just cant believe that this has happened. Its a family business and we are all going to be affected by it.

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VIDEO: Thief drives away stolen van with worker inside

- March 28, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

VIDEO: Thief drives away stolen van with worker inside

1:00pm Thursday 27th March 2014 in News By Katie Mercer, Reporter

CCTV picture of it being driven away

A FAMILYS livelihood hangs in the balance after their van full of specialist equipment was stolen while a worker was still inside.

A 19-year-old window cleaner from Active Cleaning and Maintenance was in the back of the van, which was parked in Dawson Close, Accrington, when a robber jumped in the front seat and sped away.

The stunned window cleaner fell out of the rear of the vehicle as it began to move, and quickly jumped to his feet to chase it down the street.

The firm uses the equipment to carry out their services which include window cleaning, power washing, ground mainten-ance, office cleaning and valets.

Without it, the family-run business will struggle to operate and Andrew Wilcock, managing director of the firm, has now issued a 1,000 reward to anyone who finds the van.

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Odds-and-Ends from San Onofre Nuclear Plant Go to Highest Bidder