LOCAL FIRM PUTS IN NUCLEAR-PLANT BARRICADES.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - A local manufacturer of vehicle barricades said Tuesday its products have been installed at four nuclear power plants nationwide, including the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) is a nuclear power plant located on the Pacific coast of California. The 84 acre (340,000 m²) site is in the northwestern corner of San Diego County, south of San Clemente, and surrounded by the San Onofre State Park. in northern San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. County. Valencia-based Delta Scientific, whose vehicle-control systems are in use at more than 85 percent of all U.S. nuclear power plants, recently installed barriers at Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). Nuclear Power Plant in Covert, Mich.; the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant is a twin nuclear power station located on Hutchinson Island, near Ft. Pierce, Florida in St. Lucie County. Both units are Combustion Engineering pressurized water reactors. in Florida; and Pilgrim Nuclear Station in Massachusetts. Installation costs between $12,000 and $30,000 per entry lane, and work at the four nuclear plants was completed late last year, said David Dickinson For other persons named David Dickinson, see David Dickinson (disambiguation). David Dickinson (born David Gulessarian, 16 August, 1941 in Stockport, Cheshire) is an English antiques expert and television presenter of Armenian ancestry. , the company's senior vice president. ``Nuclear power plants are among the most sensitive potential terroristtargets in the world,'' Dickinson said in a statement. ``Protecting these facilities from vehicle-based terrorist attacks requires the most effective security equipment available.'' Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. , San Diego Gas & Electric and the cities of Riverside and Anaheim jointly own the San Onofre plant, which provides 20 percent of power to more than 15 million people in Southern California, according to Edison's Web site. Delta's security barricades can stop and destroy vehicles weighing up to 20,000 pounds and traveling at up to 70 mph, the company said. These barriers, which are installed at U.S. diplomatic offices overseas, the nation's Capitol and other Washington landmarks are tested to meet minimum standards. The company's barriers also protect Broadway pedestrians in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , corporate facilities, the Singapore Parliament and private estates. Delta Scientific has been engineering and manufacturing vehicle access control equipment since 1974. It has more than 250,000 square feet of production facilities in Valencia and Palmdale. |
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