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LA28 Hosted at Lower Trestles

The Olympics LA28 Organizing Committee has announced that Lower Trestles, the world-class surf break next to the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, will host the surfing competition for the 2028 Olympics. While this may be celebrated as a cultural win for Southern California, it raises urgent and unsettling questions. Just yards from where Olympians will compete, 3.6 million pounds of high-level radioactive waste sit in thin-walled, welded stainless steel canisters, buried near the shoreline, a few feet above the water table. These canisters were never designed for long-term storage, and cannot be opened, inspected, or repaired once sealed. The site is vulnerable to sea-level rise, earthquakes, and erosion–with no permanent disposal solution in place and no emergency evacuation plan for the surrounding region.

Redefining Political Communication

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