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OCRegister
January 24, 2018
San Juan Capistrano Councilwoman Pam Patterson tried to convince her City Council colleagues to produce a video telling residents what to do if the retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station were to release radiation into the area, but the idea lacked support. Patterson suggested the video at the Jan.
Escondido Grapevine (blog)
January 21, 2018
What to do with the 3.6 million pounds of highly radioactive waste at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station by Camp Pendleton remains an epic problem, pitting concerned citizens against Southern California Edison, the California Coastal Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
Scientific American
January 17, 2018
The first truly large-scale nuclear unit—a 428,000-kilowatt installation at San Onofre, Calif.—was licensed for construction as recently as February 24, 1964, and announcements of commercial nuclear power projects did not begin to gain momentum until the fall of 1965; yet by the summer of 1966 nuclear power had drawnÃÂ ...
Popular Science
January 8, 2018
Within sight of the sunbathers at Old Man's surf spot, 55 miles north of San Diego, California, loom a pair of 176-foot-tall orbs. They're a strange backdrop, home of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Since its first reactor fired up in 1968, the plant has powered millions of lives. But now theseÃÂ ...
San Diego Reader
January 3, 2018
The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission also bows to utilities, and the California Coastal Commission thinks spent nuclear fuel should be stored where it originated (in our case, at San Onofre) because the federal government hasn't developed any options for either temporary or permanent storage ofÃÂ ...
OB Rag
January 3, 2018
It's heating up around the shuttered nuclear plant at San Onofre because locals are not happy with the plan to bury 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste at San Onofre State Beach. There were protests recently in the nearest city, San Clemente, against this plan. Meanwhile, a local group, Citizens Oversight,ÃÂ ...
VoiceofOC
January 2, 2018
The seaside nuclear reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Clemente were permanently shut down in 2013 following steam generator malfunction. What to do with the 3.6 million pounds of highly radioactive waste remains an epic problem, however, pitting concerned citizens againstÃÂ ...
San Clemente Times
December 30, 2017
Operators of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) will soon initiate the process of moving the power plant's remaining spent nuclear fuel rods from the facility's cooling tanks to on-site storage facilities, which has incensed activists in the area and compelled them to continue their fight against theÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
December 20, 2017
The Community Engagement Panel was formed by Edison and has 18 members representing a range of stakeholders that include local governments, the Sierra Club, a labor union, a Native American group, a member of the American Nuclear Society and a representative of Camp Pendleton, where theÃÂ ...
KPBS
December 19, 2017
Southern California Edison has declined to confirm whether or not the process to move nuclear waste from wet to dry storage has begun at the decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The company previously said the process would begin in mid-December and be completed by 2019.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
December 31, 1999
It's been nearly three years since the jaw-dropping revelation the framework for the California Public Utilities Commission's plan to have ratepayers cover 70 percent of the $4.7 billion cost of shuttering the failed San Onofre nuclear power plant was shaped in a secret meeting in March 2013 betweenÃÂ ...
San Diego Reader
December 31, 1999
#On August 28 of last year, Edison said it would look for another site for the San Onofre nuclear waste. But it continued work on the burying of the nuclear waste right near the ocean. This is still another reason why I maintain that Edison never had any intention of possibly moving the site of the deadlyÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
December 31, 1999
Nuclear power receives its death sentence in California: Regulators vote to shut down Diablo Canyon ... Diablo Canyon was the state's last nuclear plant after the San Onofre plant was closed in January 2012 after a small amount of radiation leaked from newly-installed replacement steam generators.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
December 31, 1999
Three-plus years after state regulators permitted Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric to start charging consumers billions of dollars for the failure of the San Onofre nuclear plant, utility executives and consumer advocates appear to have settled a long-running dispute over prematureÃÂ ...
Coast News
December 31, 1999
REGION — While the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been closed since June 2013, the discussion over where to store the spent radioactive fuel is ongoing. The nuclear waste will remain stored on site, although strong disagreement now exists as to exactly where on the grounds it should be.
KPBS
September 27, 2017
Above: The San Onofre site where Southern California Edison is storing spent fuel rods from the now shuttered nuclear power plant, OctoberÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
September 19, 2017
There are 3.55 million pounds of spent fuel at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), which has not produced electricity sinceÃÂ ...
KPBS
September 18, 2017
Above: Google Earth image showing new location of nuclear waste storage site at the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant (bottom left corner).
The San Diego Union-Tribune
September 15, 2017
A new Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation that will house 73 canisters in dry cask storage at the San Onofre Nuclear GeneratingÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
September 14, 2017
To the editor: After endless promises that nuclear waste could be stored ... How about the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station being closedÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
September 13, 2017
A man was arrested after he drove a stolen van past a security gate at San Onofre and told security guards the vehicle contained "possibleÃÂ ...
OCRegister
September 13, 2017
In California, millions of pounds of waste have been cooling at the San Onofre and Diablo Canyon nuclear plant sites for years. San Onofre is atÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
September 11, 2017
That's why the owners of the decommissioned San Onofre nuclear plant ... help move San Onofre's waste somewhere considerably less risky.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
September 7, 2017
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is an inoperative nuclear power plant along the northwestern corner of San Diego County.
SUP Magazine
September 7, 2017
Last week brought some good news in the fight over removing nuclear waste from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, commonlyÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
September 3, 2017
There are 3.55 million pounds of spent fuel at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), which has not produced electricity sinceÃÂ ...
East County Magazine
August 31, 2017
August 31, 2017 (San Diego) – Finding a safe place to store spent nuclear fuel from the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Stations is a daunting task.
CBS Los Angeles
August 29, 2017
Settlement Reached To Move San Onofre Nuclear Waste ... for radioactive fuel from commercial nuclear plants, forcing companies like EdisonÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
August 28, 2017
There are 3.55 million pounds of spent fuel at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), which has not produced electricity sinceÃÂ ...
Electric Light & Power
August 16, 2017
Southern California Edison notified the California Public Utilities Commission that the parties in the San Onofre nuclear plant closure settlementÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
August 15, 2017
... failed to secure a new agreement in the multibillion-dollar dispute over paying for the premature closure of the San Onofre nuclear plant.
Los Angeles Times
August 15, 2017
The best efforts of a high-profile mediator and months of closed-door negotiations have failed to secure an agreement in the multibillion-dollarÃÂ ...
Noozhawk
August 8, 2017
Nuclear energy supplied 15 percent of California's electric power; that dropped to 9 percent after the San Onofre nuclear power plant shut downÃÂ ...
Porterville Recorder
August 7, 2017
... that saddled consumers with 70 percent of the costs for shutting down the ruined San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, about $3.3 billion.
Los Angeles Times
August 1, 2017
The pursuit ended near the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant after CHP officers used spike strips, which blew out three of the vehicle'sÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
July 17, 2017
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is a shuttered power plant in the northwestern corner of San Diego County. (K.C. Alfred/ÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
July 15, 2017
People who want nuclear waste removed from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station gathered on the steps of San Diego Superior CourtÃÂ ...
OB Rag
December 31, 1999
Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline and fall of the nuclear power industry in the US and abroad, and highlights the efforts of thoseÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
December 31, 1999
The report singles out two San Diego-specific projects as costly for ratepayers but beneficial to Sempra — the failed San Onofre nuclear plantÃÂ ...
The Hill (blog)
December 31, 1999
Five of our nation's 60 existing nuclear power plants have closed in just ... when California's San Onofre nuclear station was shuttered in 2013,ÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
December 31, 1999
The nuclear energy industry has had a bad week. ... Even though the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) has not producedÃÂ ...
Ultimate Classic Rock
March 29, 2017
It was a Sunday and Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash had planned to perform at an anti-nuclear demonstration near the San Onofre nuclear plant in San Diego County, Calif. Under the influence of cocaine, Crosby was driving himself to the rally ...
Los Angeles Times
March 29, 2017
An abandoned tunnel in the desolate Nevada desert, barricaded only by a chain-link fence, is all that remains of the nation's tortured effort to create a permanent repository for nuclear waste 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. After spending $11 ...
NBC 7 San Diego
March 29, 2017
Investigators uncovered notes of a secret deal that Peevey allegedly reached in Warsaw, Poland with Southern California Edison over the closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant in Southern California. The investigation into that matter has yet to ...
NBC Southern California
March 25, 2017
Attorney Michael Aguirre calls the upcoming court hearing on the disposition of the nuclear waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station the "most consequential legal issue in San Diego history." The central question of the hearing, the former ...
Fallbrook / Bonsall Villlage News
March 24, 2017
Additionally, Music for the Revolution will continue to host events to draw attention to local concerns, just as it did March 4 with its Town Hall Meeting regarding nuclear waste burial at San Onofre State Beach. Music for the Revolution had its grand ...
Laguna Beach Independent Newspaper
March 23, 2017
He and Jeanie and the Alliance started the process that after all these years resulted in the shut down of San Onofre nuclear power plant, curator Andrew Tonkovich pointed out. All this inspiration and encouragement to think broadly was in contrast toÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 23, 2017
The potential waiver is the latest chapter in the long battle surrounding the shutting down of Encina and the construction of the Carlsbad Energy Center that accelerated in the wake of the shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in 2013.
San Clemente Times
March 23, 2017
After water polo practice a few nights ago, a couple high school kids were chatting about the impending road repairs at San Onofre and how it may impact their surfing habits. "I heard the road's ... No Interstate 5 or nuclear power plant. No traffic or ...
San Clemente Times
March 23, 2017
Billions have been spent over the last fifty years trying to come up with a permanent solution for nuclear waste. In 2016, the Department of Energy (DOE) adopted a policy of consent based siting to avoid the kinds of resistance they faced in the Yucca ...
