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Opinion: San Onofre May Be Shut Down, But There's Still Danger from Nuclear Waste
Many residents of Orange and San Diego counties were relieved when the nuclear power plant at San Onofre was permanently shut down in 2013. This naïve thinking, that the plant posed risks to ...
Bipartisan Legislation Would Prioritize San Onofre for Spent Nuclear Fuel Removal
Democratic Rep. Mike Levin, along with Republican Reps. Darrell Issa and Young Kim, reintroduced the Spent Fuel ...
San Diego Union-Tribune7d
Bill making San Onofre nuclear waste a priority reintroduced on Capitol Hill
At San Onofre, some 1,610 metric tons ... place to store spent fuel assemblies from commercial power plants. But even though the first nuclear plant in the U.S. opened in 1958, no dedicated ...
LAist10d
Artificial intelligence is bringing nuclear power back from the dead — maybe even in California
The issues at San Onofre, in addition to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, further limited California lawmakers’ appetite for nuclear energy. Diablo Canyon was ...