Decomm Digest

Significant demolition remains in full swing at SONGS as work to knock down the remaining structures within the power block continues, including the main operations structures of the nuclear power plant. Between January and late March, nearly 300 ...

Significant demolition remains in full swing at SONGS as work to knock down the remaining structures within the power block, including the main operations structures of the nuclear power plant. Between Jan. and late March, nearly 300 railcars carrying ...

In our oversight role, Southern California Edison is committed to transparency in the decommissioning of the San Onofre nuclear plant and operates with a bias toward making the public aware of even low-level issues that do not affect health or safety ...

We reached another milestone in our dismantlement work at San Onofre - the demolition of the Control Building - which housed the plant's nuclear operations center. Once a vibrant epicenter of activity that generated 2400 megawatts of clean energy for ...

After four years of significant demolition of the structures at SONGS, our focus for decommissioning in 2024 is taking us deeper inside the power block – to those giant, cement structures and containment domes that housed the heart and soul of the ...

Southern California Edison welcomed Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA) to SONGS on June 9 to announce important developments in the Department of Energy’s consent-based siting process for the interim storage of spent fuel...

Back when SONGS was generating clean electricity, the plant and its operating procedures were fortified by “defense-in-depth” – an intentional design where key systems and processes are built upon layers of protection, such that if one failed, others ...

Dismantlement work recently reached a milestone at SONGS with the surpassing of more than 50 percent of plant structures being demolished — 33 of 62 to be exact. Some of this progress is highly visible and dramatic, such as the recent lowering of the ...

An attorney for the Samuel Lawrence Foundation filed paperwork Aug. 2 with the California 2nd District Court of Appeal requesting its appeal be dismissed. The court has granted the dismissal request. The Foundation was appealing the final judgment by ...