3 Million pounds of deadly nuclear waste are stranded in temporary storage canisters in a highly vulnerable configuration at San Onofre, with no end in sight. Irvine Mayor Larry Agran is taking the lead in protecting southern California by developing a local plan to better secure the waste while it remains there.
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Mosko: Garden Grove Was a Warning, San Onofre Is the Test
The possible explosion of a Garden Grove tank containing a chemical listed as an eye, skin and mucous membrane irritant triggered evacuation of ~50,000 residents. This is a stark reminder of the importance of insuring the highly radioactive nuclear waste stranded at San Onofre is stored in the safest possible configuration.
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Girand: Trains vs. Beaches – Nuclear Waste Transport Options
Not only do other transportation options exist, but the frailty of the coastal rail segment suggests it would be one of the least likely solutions for transporting San Onofre’s waste.
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Edmonds: Nuclear Energy is Not Clean Energy
Nuclear energy is not clean or cheap energy – it leaves behind highly-radioactive waste and costs billions in taxpayer subsidies. In Orange County, we have nuclear waste being stored 108 feet from breaking waves. California must stop producing nuclear energy and expand the use of renewable energy options.
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Smoller: How Should We Power California?
We need a comprehensive and enforceable climate action plan if we are going to square the state’s ambitious climate goals with the growing demand for electricity. Otherwise, we are headed for lots of power outages. This is especially important for Orange County.
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Dobken: Anti-Nuclear Activists are a Key Reason for Nuclear’s Increasing Popularity
The anti-nuclear activist movement continues to lose favor with the public by not presenting factual information about nuclear energy and spent nuclear fuel. John Dobken, public information officer at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), explains how a recent op-ed misled readers by omitting facts, and in some cases, getting the science completely wrong.
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Mosko: Southern California Edison Obfuscates to Hide Risks of Nuclear Energy
Professor emeritus Roger Johnson’s op-ed posted May 27 agues the need for study of cancer risks in communities near San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and other nuclear energy plants nationwide. Southern California Edison’s rebuttal uses tricks (called obfuscation), not facts, at every turn to confuse and lull the public into a false sense of safety about nuclear power and its deadly waste.
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Dobken: Misinformation about Nuclear Doesn’t Serve the Public Interest
Despite our access to facts and data, and a review of history, anti-nuclear activists continue to spread misinformation about nuclear energy and radiation science. This practice does not serve the public interest, particularly as we face the existential threat of climate change.
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Johnson: Should California Revive Nuclear Power?
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.
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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.
