This backgrounder compiles coalition views on nuclear plant decommissioning risks, methods (DECON/SAFSTOR/entombment), waste disposition, funding adequacy, and lack of state/local oversight. It includes a dedicated case study on SONGS: the 2012 steam generator tube failure, the shift to Holtec UMAX dry storage 108 feet from the beach, the defective shim design found in canisters before loading, and SCE's 2017 settlement with Citizens Oversight.
Directly useful for SLF's SONGS advocacy: it's one of the few sources that names the specific canister defect (Holtec shim bolts) found at San Onofre and lays out the legislative landscape SLF would need to track for any Move-the-Waste strategy.
