Coalition Aims to Prod US Government on San Onofre Nuclear Waste Removal

Coalition Aims to Prod US Government on San Onofre Nuclear Waste Removal
A view of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant in San Diego County on March 15, 2011. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images
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A newly formed “coalition of stakeholders” is calling on the federal government to get serious about removing millions of pounds of radioactive waste from a closed nuclear power plant on Southern California’s coast.

Doug Bauder, vice president and chief nuclear officer for Southern California Edison (SCE), told The Epoch Times that the coalition wants to see real action—including funds appropriated in next year’s federal budget—to expedite the nuclear waste removal process from the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).