Below are recent photographs of casks that are being stored at San Onofre State Beach from the now-defunct SONGS (San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station). If all goes according to plan, Southern California Edison, the owner of SONGS will store millions of pounds of high-level radioactive waste that’s deadly to humans for millions of years about 100 feet from the beach and a few inches above the water table.
Each cask is warrantied by the manufacturer, Holtec, to last up to twenty years. On October 6, 2015, the California Coastal Commission issued a temporary renewable permit to Southern California Edison to store the waste onsite, making San Onofre the world’s first dual-use public beach and nuclear waste dump.
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I walk the State Beach and San O on a regular basis- there is no beach in front of the plant unless it is low tide. The surf beach has lost lots of parking this year because the entire beach has lost sand. Also- yesterday because it was an extremely low tide you could see how rusted the inlets were someone could easily cut the remaining bars and enter the plant through the 2 inlets . The giant metal rings are no longer attached and all that is left is some smaller pipes running across.
I walk the State Beach and San O on a regular basis- there is no beach in front of the plant unless it is low tide. The surf beach has lost lots of parking this year because the entire beach has lost sand. Also- yesterday because it was an extremely low tide you could see how rusted the inlets were someone could easily cut the remaining bars and enter the plant through the 2 inlets . The giant metal rings are no longer attached and all that is left is some smaller pipes running across.