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OCT. 31, 2014
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Al Csontos, center, addresses the crowd about dry cask storage, which many in the audience spoke out against for fear that the fiveeighths inch thick steel casks are too thin to store radioactive material for the long term. Photo by Ellen Wright
Nuclear Regulatory Commission: RANCHO ‘Getting SFNEWS ahead of issues’ .
Happy Halloween
By Ellen Wright
Hundreds of families enjoy the Not-So-Scary Estuary free family event at San Elijo Lagoon on Oct. 18 and Oct. 19. Kids dressed in costume and walked the Haunted Hike nature trail seeking clues to nocturnal lagoon animals, which was presented by San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy and rangers at the nature center. Funding was made possible by city of Encinitas Mizel Family Foundation Community Grant. Support for busing families from Escondido partner schools was made by Coastal Conservancy’s Explore the Coast Grant. Courtesy photo
Attorneys file final appeal over yoga in schools By Aaron Burgin
ENCINITAS — The battle over whether Encinitas Union School District’s yoga program promotes religion in public schools took another step recently as attorneys suing the district announced they had filed their final appeal brief, setting the stage for the state appeals court to take up the matter. The National Center for Law and Policy announced the filings Oct. 24. The group is appealing Superior Court Judge John Meyer’s ruling that the school district’s yoga program did not violate the “establish-
Lawyers suing the Encinitas Union School District over its yoga program file their final appeal
TURN TO YOGA ON A20 brief, which may lead to the state taking up the matter. File photo
REGION — The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) held a mandatory meeting Monday night at the Omni La Costa Resort to gather public comment on the decommissioning activities at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The NRC received the Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report from Southern California Edison, which operates the site. The document outlines the process, timeline and cost of shutting down the plant. The NRC has 90 days to review the document but does not approve or deny it. “We carry out our review to ensure that our regulations are being satisfied and the (report) is in fact, adequate,” Larry Camper, Director of the Waste Management and
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Environmental Protection Division of the NRC, said. The NRC has the authority to approve or deny the License Termination Plan, which takes place after the decommissioning. Over the course of 46 years, the plant has accumulated more than 3,800 spent fuel assemblies which would need to go into about 125 to 150 dry casks, Tom Palmisano, Edison’s San Onofre Site vice president said. Spent fuel from Unit 1 already fills 50 canisters. The remaining spent fuel is currently sitting in pools on-site and will eventually go into dry cask storage to be transported off-site by 2049, according to Al Csontos, Chief of the Structural Mechanics and Materials Branch at the NRC. The Department of Energy has not yet comTURN TO COMMISSION ON A19