Environmental Group Pushes Stronger Measures at San Onofre

摘要

Local environmental activist group San Clemente Green has launched a new petition aimed at pushing former San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station operator Southern California Edison into taking additional steps to secure highly radioactive waste from the plant that's expected to remain on site for anywhere between the next 30 and 600 years.The crux of the group's argument is that nuclear waste in the form of spent fuel rods from the plant should be "canned" in stainless steel tubes before being interred in concrete dry cask storage, into which fuel rods are placed after a minimum five years' cooling-off period in pools with constantly circulating water.