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Columnist Teri Sforza writes that the depth of a scrape a on a can of nuclear waste is about technology and skepticism … and ...
A recent accounting showed that 46 of the site’s 62 buildings have been demolished; 474 million pounds of waste have been shipped offsite; 107 million pounds of decommissioning material have been ...
Re “The Supreme Court just issued a ruling on nuclear waste. What does that mean for San Onofre?” (June 19): The San Onofre ...
The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, which was shut down 12 years ago, remains a focal point of nuclear waste storage concerns ...
San Onofre has not produced electricity since 2012 after a leak in a steam generator tube led to its closing. The plant is now being decommissioned and is in the fourth year of a $4.5-billion ...
San Onofre has two dry storage systems on that bluff over the blue Pacific. The older one — the Orano TN-NUHOMS system that stores canisters horizontally — holds 50 canisters and is at that 20 ...
San Onofre is now a nuclear waste dump for the foreseeable future. This waste is so radioactive that it requires remote handling for up to a million years. That alone is cause for concern to all ...
San Onofre initially shipped 270 spent fuel assemblies from its original Unit 1 reactor by rail before the federal government halted the process in the early 1970s, he said.
San Onofre State Beach, 3 miles south of San Clemente on March 19, 2024. / Photo by Ariana Drehsler for Voice of San Diego None of the parties involved in the negotiations would disclose what price ...
Access to the fame San Onofre State Beach was renewed for 25 years, just in the nick of time before its prior agreement lapsed on Aug. 31. The stretch of the coast tucked between Orange County and ...
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is seen from Trail 1 at San Onofre State Beach south of San Clemente on Tuesday, August 27, 2019. (File Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG) ...
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is seen from Trail 1 at San Onofre State Beach south of San Clemente on Tuesday, August 27, 2019. (File Photo by Leonard Ortiz, ...