After a citizens’ group branded San Onofre a “beachfront nuclear waste dump” – and sued Southern California Edison and the California Coastal Commission for failing to consider another home for it –
the warring parties struck an agreement Monday to take specific steps toward removing nuclear waste from the region.
Activists hope the deal will also kick-start discussions to solve the nuclear waste dilemma nationwide, while others say it accomplishes little.
“What we’ve done has never been done before; work with a utility to
develop a plan to move nuclear fuel, despite the fact that there’s no (existing) federal repository,” said Maria Severson, an attorney representing the nonprofit group Citizens Oversight.
