Dive Summary:
- A three year-old video of execs spoofing “Star Trek” inside the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) has surfaced. It shows a then-chief nuclear officer willing to go where no man has gone before... to boost corporate culture and plant safety.
- In the “SONGS TREK” video, execs don full Trek uniforms and makeup. The former plant chief Ross Ridenoure nabbed the starring role as Capt. James T. Kirk and Onofre’s current vice president and station manager Doug Bauder played one of the crew members. The video was first obtained by ABC’s San Diego affiliate KGTV.
- Southern California Edison, which owns the plant in Pendleton, Calif, confirms the video was made in 2010, around the same time SONGS was to replace steam generators. Those generators were shut down in January 2012 after a radiation leak. Since SONGS' closing, the Nuclear Regulator Commission has investigated the faulty SONGS plant and allegations of willful wrongdoing regarding safety violations.
From the article:
“…not everyone was a fan of the folly.
Taping the adventures of Starship Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, as the San Onofre crew redubbed the Starship Enterprise, in the midst of a nuclear power plant apparently rubbed some its employees the wrong way.
An “ inside” San Onofre source requesting anonymity told KGTV that workers had found the video spoof “inappropriate.”
