Talk over the years about the potential of a Chernobyl- or Fukushima-like nuclear disaster along California’s coast has had many people wondering whether the threat is real or based on irrational fears.
Opinions vary widely, but local residents, city officials, watchdog groups, and the power company responsible for the storage of more than 100 massive containers of spent nuclear fuel near San Clemente, California, can agree on one thing: the radioactive waste should be moved away from heavily populated beach areas to a more permanent repository.
