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San Onofre Nuclear Waste Risks

Learn the facts about San Onofre nuclear waste. 

The San Clemente City Council will vote on whether to approve Resolution No. 13-53 regarding the City’s position on San Onofre nuclear waste and decommissioning.  It includes concerns about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) that makes the claim it is safe to store nuclear waste at San Onofre (and all other U.S. nuclear plants) for hundreds of years or indefinitely.

The NRC GEIS concludes it’s safe to store nuclear waste on site indefinitely, even though the NRC currently will not approve transportation canisters for “high burnup” nuclear waste and will not approve dry cask storage of high burnup nuclear waste for more than 20 years.  

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Learn more at http://sanonofresafety.org/nuclear-waste/

This issues affects everyone living within 50+ miles of the San Onofre nuclear plant. Even thought the plant is shut down, there remains on-site tons of dangerous nuclear waste. 

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