Recent claims that nuclear power is clean, green, emission free and the solution to the climate crisis are false. Nuclear power remains the most expensive, the most unreliable, the most dangerous, and the most environmentally unfriendly form of energy production.
Tag: San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Ziegler: The Oil Spill is Bad. So is Deadly Contamination You Can’t See or Smell
On the topic of environmental disasters, could you imagine trying to deal with contamination from a far deadlier kind of waste that you can’t see or smell and that remains toxic for hundreds of thousands of years? The oil spill has us thinking about the state of nuclear waste safety.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Mosko: More Nuclear is No Solution to Climate Crisis
No one has figured out how to safely dispose of deadly nuclear waste. Yet, to combat the climate crisis, the United States and the world propose to create more of it by extending the life of existing nuclear power plants and building new ones. Has the world learned nothing from the catastrophes of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima?
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Ziegler: Is San Onofre Safe? With Minimal Data, There’s No Clear Answer
As Southern California Edison dismantles the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, officials are defending their radiation monitoring. But their data is inadequate. As decommissioning proceeds, and with 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste to be left behind afterward, the public deserves robust, real-time monitoring.
Posted inNEWS
How Safe is it to Surf or Live Near the San Onofre Nuclear Reactor?
The San Onofre nuclear reactor’s release of radioactive water and material into the ocean and air near south Orange County pose a number of safety questions for surfers and beach goers who frequent the area.
Posted inCountywide
Annual High Tide Spurs Concerns About Future Safety of San Onofre Nuclear Waste Stock Near South OC
Sea level rise and questions about the integrity of radioactive waste storage canisters are propelling local anxiety over the decommissioned San Onofre nuclear reactor.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Mosko: Public Safety at Stake in Debate Over Nuclear Waste Storage at San Onofre
Highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel will be stored onsite at San Onofre for the foreseeable future. SoCal Edison will save untold $millions should the public be swayed to trust in Edison’s promises that their thin-walled dry canister storage system can’t fail and that a national repository will magically materialize in time to save the day. Safe nuclear waste storage activists want the waste moved now to more robust, thick-walled casks with safety features lacking in thin-walled canisters.
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Dobken: Misleading Readers About Spent Nuclear Fuel Serves No Purpose
Securing a long-term solution to spent nuclear fuel storage has proved daunting in the U.S. Making the task more difficult is the amount of misinformation put forward by some regarding the nature of spent nuclear fuel and its storage. John Dobken, San Onofre nuclear plant public information officer, argues for a science and fact-based discussion of the issue.
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Mosko: San Onofre Safety, Public Deserves The Facts, Not Promises
Nuclear safety advocates are right to question SoCal Edison’s decision to remove the cooling pools at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Edison should follow the example of the Swiss who have chosen to make safety the top priority in designing storage of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel.
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Mosko: Dust-ups Continue over Radioactive Waste Storage at San Onofre
In giving Southern California Edison permission to proceed with removing the cooling pools at SONGS, the California Coastal Commission is green-lighting eliminating the only means whereby the highly radioactive contents of a failing thin-walled dry storage canister could be repackaged into another canister. Local nuclear safety advocates are outraged.
