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Closed California plant's spent fuel to be stored near ocean
2015-10-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: Nuclear waste from the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California will be moved to long-term storage beside the Pacific Ocean, the state's Coastal Commission voted unanimously yesterday. Commissioners said they lacked any viable alternative to granting plant owner Southern California Edison Co. (SCE) a permit to build a new storage facility. The Department of Energy has not approved a location to take spent fuel, they noted, and there are no short-term prospects for one. An existing...
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