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A combination of failures: why 3.6m lb of nuclear waste is buried on a CA beach
- kristianp 5y agoNot actually buried on a beach. "The waste is buried about 100ft from the shoreline", in a concrete enclosure near a defunct nuclear power plant next to the beach.
- avmich 5y ago> Handling those stockpiles has been an afterthought to the NRC, the federal enforcer, said Allison Macfarlane, another former commission chair. “It was not a big topic at the NRC, unfortunately,” Macfarlane said. “In the nuclear industry in general the backend of the nuclear cycle gets very little attention. So it just never rises to ‘oh this is a very important issue, we should be doing something.’” Something like this damage reputation of nuclear energy industry considerably. I'd love to have nuclear plants helping combat the climate crisis, but problems with nuclear waste are so significant in practice that it has to be addressed.