Quake faults near San Onofre nuclear plant to be studied - latimes.com

 Southern California Edison announced Friday that it will collaborate with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on seismic studies looking at offshore faults near the San Onofre nuclear plant, beginning later this year.
Edison requested approval last year from the California Public Utilities Commission to recover $64 million from ratepayers for seismic studies at the plant. A PUC administrative law judge issued a proposed decision last month granting the request, but it is still pending final approval from the commission.
It was not immediately clear whether the studies to be conducted by Scripps would be part of the $64-million application pending or would be an additional effort.
[Updated at 4:34 p.m.: Caroline McAndrews, Edison's director of nuclear strategic projects, said the collaboration with Scripps will be part of the work covered in the application pending before the CPUC. She said discussions with Scripps had begun last August, and that the work done in collaboration with Scripps would account for about half of the seismic study budget.
Scripps professor Neal Driscoll, who will be one of the lead scientists on the offshore studies, said the effort will mark the first time in 20 or 30 years that this type of data has been aggregated off the coast of Southern California.
"Having academia partner with industry is the way of the future," he said].
Edison said Scripps scientists will take the lead on the studies off San Onofre State Beach, where they will use specially equipped boats towing underwater microphones to collect data that will be made available to other experts and to the public. The surveys will evaluate existing and potential faults as well as imaging the underwater terrain.
In a statement, Edison said the involvement of Scripps will add “objective and world-class expertise in geophysics” to the studies.
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