Group files suit to block storing nuclear waste at San Onofre
Public Watchdogs, a San Diego-based activist group, brought a lawsuit in U.S. District Court Thursday, trying to block the storage of nuclear waste on the premises of the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).
The plant’s operator, Southern California Edison, is scheduled to start moving spent fuel at SONGS by the middle of next month from what is called “wet storage” to a newly constructed “dry storage” installation. The transfer is expected to be completed in 2019.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Public Watchdogs by environmental attorney Cory Briggs, says storing 3.55 million pounds of waste at SONGS results in “converting the site into a de facto radioactive dump.”
The suit not only names Edison and SONGS part-owner San Diego Gas & Electric as defendants but also includes the federal government, the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Navy.
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