Commentary: Group discusses status of San Onofre’s nuclear waste
It was good to gather around a table with 20 people who care about what’s happening at San Onofre, where 3.5 million pounds of radioactive...
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Commentary: After Granholm visit, more questions than answers
Will the federal government deliver on its obligation to open a permanent repository for spent nuclear fuel during our lifetimes?...
Commentary: The oil spill is bad. So is deadly contamination you can’t see or smell
Reporting on the Orange County oil spill has us drawing comparisons and thinking about the state of nuclear waste safety....
Judge denies petition to halt SONGS demolition
REGION — A Los Angeles judge has denied a Del Mar-based organization’s petition challenging the California Coastal Commission for its decision to approve the demolition...
Commentary: Nuclear industry doesn’t deserve $50 billion subsidy
While the bill purports to respond to the climate crisis, the misdirection of funds to nuclear perpetuates climate problems, not solutions....
Commentary: Countering a love letter to the nuclear industry
By Bart Ziegler In his May 27 commentary, “Correcting the record on SONGS,” Al Bates writes a love letter to the nuclear industry. Bates fiercely...
Commentary: Correcting the record on SONGS
As a nearly 40-year resident of Encinitas, I want my community to have the facts about how spent nuclear fuel is safely stored there....
Environmental advocacy group files lawsuit to stop SONGS demolition
REGION — The Samuel Lawrence Foundation, a Del Mar-based environmental advocacy group, is suing the California Coastal Commission to overturn the agency’s approval of the...
Commentary: Edison panel should build trust, not stone walls
Southern California Edison’s ratepayer-funded Community Engagement Panel is a sham....
Petition calls for cancer study around San Onofre plant
REGION — A recently circulated petition is calling for federal funding to research possible cancer risks of people living near nuclear power plants like the...
Commentary: On San Onofre panel’s commentary — we disagree
The San Onofre Community Engagement Panel piece runs short on fact and long on omission, obfuscation and self-congratulations....
Still Getting it Wrong: The Samuel Lawrence Foundation and Spent Nuclear Fuel
There is a huge difference between “downplaying risks,” as the Samuel Lawrence Foundation asserts, and appropriately assessing risk and then mitigating, or lessening that risk....
San Onofre officials: ‘No risk’ of widespread radiological catastrophe
Southern California Edison and a leading nuclear waste expert have called two recently published Samuel Lawrence Foundation reports describing dangerous conditions at a nuclear waste...
Reports: San Onofre nuclear site ‘fatally flawed’
Nuclear waste storage facilities at the decommissioning San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station are “fatally flawed, according to recent reports....
