My wife has been to the Diablo nuclear plant, having worked as a manager at PG&E. Some of those 1500 workers are security guards. She says it's somewhat intimidating to walk the corridors, as high up above there are guards with rifles pointed down at you, to make sure you don't stray beyond the painted color lines on the floor into secure areas. They have had continual threats from protestors and troublemakers, so security is extremely tight. It is stupid to close a fully functional plant, particularly as the risks are low, and California is suffering from a shortage of electricity. But stupid is as the politicians do.
You could probably fit all of the waste (in their special containers behind the barbed wire) on two flatbed trucks. Pretty amazing - almost a perpetual motion machine to use that little fuel for how long it has been.