The San Onofre nuclear power plants have been shut down, but the
nuclear waste is buried nearby.
The article provides some examples of a general problem with nuclear
power plants: the tendency to do a bad job of maintenance, ignoring
their problems.
To find a place for nuclear waste that will be safe for tens of
thousands of years is a real engineering challenge, but finding a
place that is safe for 25 years from well-known threats is surely much
easier. I think that the people who selected a place near a beach on
the Pacific ocean, an earthquake fault, an important transport artery
and a major metropolitan area were not being careful.