Case dates back to 'serious near-miss' incident involving a canister filled with nuclear waste.
A lawsuit seeking the release of internal communications surrounding an incident nearly five years ago at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station will continue after a ruling Monday by a federal judge in San Diego.turned down a motion by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to toss out the case brought by San Diego attorney Michael Aguirre.
The case dates to Aug. 3, 2018, when workers at the plant operated by Southern California Edison were transferring canisters filled with highly radioactive spent fuel from storage pools to a newly constructed dry storage facility at the north end of the plant. During the transfers, each canister is lowered into a protected vertical cavity.
During a public meeting six days later, an Edison vice president did not mention the seriousness of the incident and details did not come to light until a worker for a subcontractor at the plant spoke up later in the meeting.request with the NRC, looking to obtain communications between the NRC and plant officials from the date of the incident through Sept. 14, 2018.
Houston deemed the redacted information to be “confidential documents” that the NRC could withhold under the exemptions of the Freedom of Information Act.Aguirre has argued the NRC excluded “relevant phone logs, e-mail and other types of communication records.” Houston’s ruling said both parties have agreed that “several phone calls occurred” between representatives of the NRC and the plant from Aug. 3 through Sept. 14 and that those phone records “are clearly within the scope” of the request.
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