The site's permit was set to expire next month. 'We're in a challenging situation without any options from the federal government,' one commissioner said
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.
A second, more recently built storage facility holds 73 canisters that have been lowered vertically into storage cavities. Its permit runs through October 2035. “Having those together, so that we’re looking at the totality of , seems to make sense to us and certainly it was the view of the Coastal Commission staff that it made sense as well,” said Manuel Camargo, manager of strategic planning at Edison and SONGS, after the meeting.
During the meeting, which was held at a Shelter Island hotel and conference center, a San Diego-based consumer group brought up concerns about one section of the permit.that a specific paragraph could open the door for waste canisters from other nuclear facilities — such as Diablo Canyon, operated by Pacific Gas & Electric — to potentially end up at SONGS.
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