Mayor Agran Convenes Public Hearing to Discuss San Onofre Nuclear Waste
In the face of federal and state inaction, Irvine has begun exploring the idea of creating a local plan to move highly dangerous nuclear waste now stored at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station site — located between San Clemente and Oceanside — to a more secure and safer facility.
Mayor Larry Agran convened a public hearing on September 30th to hear testimony from nuclear industry experts, Southern California Edison (the San Onofre plant’s operator), UCI experts, and local citizens and officials who have long been involved with the nuclear waste issue.
All of the speakers agreed that the current situation at the San Onofre plant site was not intended to be permanent, and that the federal government is still decades away from having a national waste repository, originally promised for 1998.
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