Nuclear Waste and Safety

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Residents Demand Transparency on Nuclear Waste

SOLANA BEACH, CA – The scenic Southern California coastline, with its world-famous beaches and vibrant communities, is home to a pressing environmental and public safety concern: the 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste stored at the decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).

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Why the Federal Government Still Has No Permanent Nuclear Waste Solution

Forty-three years after Congress promised a solution, the United States remains trapped in an expensive stalemate over nuclear waste disposal. Despite President Trump's recent executive orders calling for a "recommended national policy to support spent nuclear fuel management" within 240 days, decades of political reversals have left 89,000 metric tons of radioactive waste scattered across 75 sites with no permanent solution in sight.

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Justice Delayed: Environmental Exploitation and Recovery

For over eight decades, Indigenous communities worldwide have served as unwilling guardians of humanity's most dangerous industrial legacy. From the uranium mines of Namibia to the nuclear test sites of Kazakhstan, from the Marshall Islands to the Navajo Nation, Native peoples have borne the environmental and health costs of the global nuclear industry while reaping none of its benefits.
This pattern of "nuclear colonization" represents a modern form of environmental racism where marginalized communities become expendable in pursuit of national security and energy production. The consequences are measured not just in contaminated soil and water, but in generations of cancer, birth defects, and cultural displacement.

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Toxic Legacy: Why California's Coastal Communities Demand Nuclear Justice

Coastal communities bear the environmental burden of 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste.

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LA28 Faces Backlash Over Surfing Venue Near Nuclear Waste Site

The LA28 Organizing Committee’s recent decision to host the 2028 Olympic surfing competition at Lower Trestles, a renowned surf break located next to the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, has sparked intense public concern. Critics say the venue’s proximity to a high-level radioactive waste storage facility raises serious safety and environmental red flags.

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21 Jun

3.6 Mile Wake-Up Call Walk/Run for a Nuclear-Free Coast

A Timeline of Warnings Ignored

How San Onofre Became a Nuclear Dead End

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) hasn’t produced power since 2013, but it still poses one of California’s most immediate environmental and public health threats. Over 3.6 million pounds of high-level radioactive waste remain stranded just feet from the Pacific Ocean, in thin-walled steel canisters that cannot be inspected, opened, or repaired.

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Fifty Years of Nuclear Protection Gone- Say No to AB 305

California’s Nuclear Safeguards Act of 1976 has stood as a crucial line of defense, ensuring no new nuclear reactors are built until a permanent solution for radioactive waste is created. AB 305 threatens to dismantle that safeguard, clearing the way for small modular reactors (SMRs) without resolving the waste crisis we already face. These SMRs are neither truly small nor do we know if they’re safe–as an SMR has never been built. SMR are actually an experimental technology that generates more waste per unit of energy than traditional reactors and operates under relaxed safety protocols that could jeopardize public health and environmental security.