Environmental security

San Onofre nuclear waste going nowhere fast

A big problem remains: Where to put the nuclear waste? As I noted in 2001, California banned building any new nuclear plants until a national solution was found on where to put the spent fuel.

The California Coastal Commission met Tuesday in Long Beach and approved a staff recommendation to keep San Onofre’s waste on the site. An Oct. 5 Register news story reported, “The waste would remain in this Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation through 2049, when Edison assumes that the federal Department of Energy will have taken custody of all spent nuclear fuel. It would then be torn down, and the site on Camp Pendleton property restored, by 2051, the staff report says.”