{"id":9262,"date":"2017-03-23T22:02:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T22:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/?p=9262"},"modified":"2017-03-23T22:02:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T22:02:59","slug":"nuclear-waste-site-plans-100-feet-from-shoreline-raise-community-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/nuclear-waste-site-plans-100-feet-from-shoreline-raise-community-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Waste Site Plans 100 feet from shoreline raise community concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Southern California, a highly populated community between San Diego and Orange County are concerned about\u00a0the Edison energy company’s\u00a0plans to store\u00a0radioactive waste\u00a0100 feet from the Pacific Ocean at the San Onofre Nuclear\u00a0Power Plant site.\u00a0The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant is located\u00a0next to\u00a0the Rose Canyon fault line, that runs along the shoreline, and has the potential of a\u00a07.4 quake.\u00a0More than 8.5 million people live within fifty miles of the power plant.<\/p>\n

According to Gary Headrick, co-founder of the San Clemente Green Org, reports:\u00a0“The California Coastal Commission (CCC) approved Edison\u2019s plan to partially bury nuclear waste in silos only inches above the rising sea level, 100 feet from the ocean, protected by a crumbling 15-foot sea wall, (a hearing is scheduled for April 14, 2017). One canister holding used fuel assemblies contains more radiation than was released at Chernobyl. Currently, about fifty \u201cChernobyl Cans\u201d are being stored, with another hundred to come out of pools.”<\/p>\n

State and federal regulators have approved the new storage plan, which includes storing nuclear waste in so-called dry-storage canisters. Edison said the protocol is safe. But critics aren’t convinced which cite reports of\u00a0potential leaks, the effects of rising sea levels and that the storage site is\u00a0vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis. San Onofre was shut down in 2012 after the discovery of a radioactive leak.<\/p>\n

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In Southern California, a highly populated community between San Diego and Orange County are concerned about\u00a0the Edison energy company’s\u00a0plans to store\u00a0radioactive waste\u00a0100 feet from the Pacific Ocean at the San Onofre Nuclear\u00a0Power Plant site.\u00a0The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant is located\u00a0next to\u00a0the Rose Canyon fault line, that runs along the \u2026<\/p>\n

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