Public Watchdogs has recorded and published the latest San Onofre Community Engagement Panel (CEP) meeting on the disposal of deadly high-level radioactive nuclear waste (they prefer to call it SNF or “spent nuclear fuel”) at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (“SONGS”).
Background: SONGS was shut down after a defective piece of experimental equipment released radioactive steam into the air on January 29, 2012.
The owner of the failed facility, Southern California Edison, kept the event a secret for four days until the radiation from the leak was dissipated. Once the closure was announced, the event garnered national news coverage). The event left millions of pounds of radioactive waste stranded on the beach at San Onofre State Beach Park, located at Camp Pendleton. The waste, which is deadly for 250,000 years, is being stored in canisters with a 10-year warranty.