A combination of failures
A combination of failures
Why 3.6m pounds of nuclear waste is buried on a popular California beach. Rod Ewing comments.
![The defunct San Onofre nuclear power plant near San Clemente, California](https://fsi9-prod.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/895x498/public/hero/lenny_ignelziap.jpeg?h=aa800159&itok=f2AwfNLf)
More than 2 million visitors flock each year to California’s San Onofre state beach, a dreamy slice of coastline just north of San Diego. The beach is popular with surfers, lies across one of the largest Marine Corps bases in the Unites States and has a 10,000-year-old sacred Native American site nearby. It even landed a shout-out in the Beach Boys’ 1963 classic Surfin’ USA.
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