Lawsuit Targets Permit for Burial of San Onofre Nuclear Waste at Beach

摘要

A permit to bury radioactive waste from the retired San Onofre reactors on low-lying land next to the Pacific Ocean was challenged in court by a San Diego consumer advocacy group. The California Coastal Commission approved a permit in October to bury nuclear waste in concrete bunkers within 125 feet of a seawall and the beach at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear plant in northern San Diego County. A lawsuit filed by Citizens Oversight in state Superior Court in San Diego accuses the coastal commission of neglecting its obligation to protect the coastline and marine life from hazardous waste, and for failing to require that nuclear plant operator Southern California Edison show it had exhausted other reasonable alternatives.