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There is nuclear waste in the cliffs in San Onofre. They reportedly have nowhere to put it, and expect to only be able to store the depleted fuel there for a fe
by CameronNemo 6y ago
There is nuclear waste in the cliffs in San Onofre. They reportedly have nowhere to put it, and expect to only be able to store the depleted fuel there for a few decades.
- Wohlf 6y agoWhy isn't it in Yucca mountain?
- CameronNemo 6y agoHarry Reid? I am not old enough to know what happened there.
- toomuchtodo 6y ago"In January 2019 Governor Steve Silolak vowed that "not one ounce" of nuclear waste would be allowed at Yucca Mountain, and a May funding bill did not include funding for the site. In May 2019, the Reno Gazette-Journal published a long-form essay cataloging opposition to the Yucca Mountain project. According to a tribal elder, the Western Shoshone view Yucca Mountain as sacred and a nuclear storage facility "will poison everything. It's people's life, our Mother Earth's life, all the living things here, all the creatures; whatever's crawling around, it's their life too." The tribes say they lack funds to discredit federal safety claims, but will be directly affected by a potential disaster." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository#Opposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository#Delays_since_2009 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
- cma 6y agoReading up on it.. they store it 18 inches above high tide in single walled corrosion prone storage that can't deal with ground water moisture that is expected to eventually seep in and they came within 1/4th of an inch of dropping a barrel in a way that would break the air ventilation cooling system and require water cooling and possibly cause a Fukushima like radioactive steam release.. just a few miles from Los Angeles.