| Update, June 17, 2021: On June 16, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge issued a tentative ruling on the Samuel Lawrence Foundation (SLF) lawsuit. Get the tentative ruling here. A final ruling has not been made. Get the lawsuit here. |  |
This lawsuit, and the problem of stranded nuclear waste at the defunct San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in northern San Diego County, was highlighted on Lawrence O’Donnell’s Last Word on MSNBC in a nationally televised interview with San Diego congressman Mike Levin.
O’Donnell prefaced the interview by stating that the fate of the nuclear waste dump will be in the hands of a single judge when a lawsuit by the Samuel Lawrence Foundation is heard in Los Angeles Superior Court court.
Throughout the interview O’Donnel referred to the SONGS location as “Earthquake Bay.” Coincidentally, this is also the title of Public Watchdogs first whitepaper on the geology of the San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dump.
Get a copy of Earthquake Bay here.
SONGS stopped generating electricity in January, 2012, after its replacement steam generators leaked a plume of radioactive steam into the environment. The failure left millions of pounds of deadly radioactive waste stranded at the facility. The radioactive waste, which is in solid form as “used-up nuclear fuel” is deadly for at least 250,000 years. It is being stored in containers that are guaranteed for 25 years.
On May 28, 2021, Public Watchdogs filed legal documents with the Supreme Court of the United States requesting that its case be heard.