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Feds hand out $26 million to help find home for nuclear waste

Column: 'We all know that keeping spent fuel here long term is unacceptable,' Rep. Mike Levin says of San Onofre

Dry storage of used fuel rods at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Camp Pendleton, CA, on Thursday, December 16, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Dry storage of used fuel rods at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Camp Pendleton, CA, on Thursday, December 16, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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Think of finding a permanent home for nuclear waste as a 10-mile-long race course run by inchworms. Well, we’re here to tell you that the starting gun has sounded and the inchworms have officially set off!

Hey. After decades of paralysis, every millimeter forward is worth noting.

Pedro J. Pizarro, CEO of Edison International, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and U.S. Rep. Mike Levin, from left, take a tour of the ISFSI (Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation) at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station south of San Clemente, CA on Thursday, April 21, 2022. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
File photo of Pedro J. Pizarro, CEO of Edison International, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and U.S. Rep. Mik . . .