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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 ...
Re “The Supreme Court just issued a ruling on nuclear waste. What does that mean for San Onofre?” (June 19): The San Onofre ...
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 ...
Back story. SONGS is located right above the beach at San Onofre and although the plant has not generated electricity since 2012, it is home to 3.55 million pounds of radioactive waste that dates ...
San Onofre’s nuclear waste may be one step closer to being relocated, but at least one of the storage canisters containing spent fuel rods appears to be damaged.
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’s dry storage system is built to withstand more than 100 times the force of that (1.5g). Low levels of tritium were found in ground water last year, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Works crews transferring spent fuel at the San Onofre nuclear plant from cooling pools into dry storage discovered a loose bolt inside one of the canisters, prompting Southern California Edison to ...
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 ...
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) ...