The California Coastal Commission on Thursday approved a 13-year extension to a permit for one of a pair of storage facilities that holds more than 50 canisters containing nuclear waste at the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. AdvertisementThe permit was extended to a facility at San Onofre where up to 63 canisters of spent fuel and other highly radioactive waste are stacked horizontally. The storage site has been in operation since 2003 and its original permit was set to expire next month. A second, more recently built storage facility holds 73 canisters that have been lowered vertically into storage cavities. Both storage sites sit at the north end of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, known as SONGS for short.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 14, 2022 21:43 UTC