The State - News from July 19, 1988

Recent equipment purchases at the San Onofre nuclear power plant are being reviewed to determine if the plant was among the U.S. nuclear plants that may have bought used circuit breakers labeled as new, a spokesman for Southern California Edison Co., majority owner of the plant, said. “We are now going through all of our records attempting to determine where our breakers were purchased,” Dave Barron said. “It’s a day-to-day review, and we have not yet determined anything.” Nuclear power plants throughout the country received notices from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission warning that they may have purchased used breakers from six Southern California companies now under investigation for falsely labeling the equipment, which is used to shut off power in order to prevent fires or short circuits.