Decomm Digest

Power was restored at SONGS following a 44-minute outage. The outage stemmed from an issue with off-site power lines.

Southern California Edison is currently placing 73 canisters of spent nuclear fuel into dry storage at San Onofre nuclear plant. In this latest update on fuel transfer operations, we look at the download of canister 46 and how improvements made last year to FTO helped the crew be successful.

Southern California Edison is transferring spent nuclear fuel from wet to dry storage at the San Onofre nuclear plant. In this latest update we talk about the progress so far and the latest Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspection report.

Last year, SONGS was a "Fukushima waiting to happen." This year, SONGS is a "Chernobyl waiting to happen." Both comparisons are wildly off-base. Read our full response to the Times.

In 2014, SCE selected the Holtec UMAX dry spent fuel storage system to hold the remaining spent nuclear fuel on site at SONGS. Following a meeting May 29 with Rep. Mike Levin (CA-49), SCE agreed to produce an evaluation of any meaningful, factual, and science-based changes to on-site spent fuel storage systems and technology since 2014. SCE released the document today.

Today, crews successfully downloaded canister #38 into the Holtec dry spent fuel storage system. Continuous improvement of fuel transfer operations is the focus.

Recently released photos from SCE's industry leading canister inspections may not tell the whole story. Read our latest post to understand the analysis that went into reading the high-resolution photos and what it told us and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

A San Clemente activist group recently sent out erroneous information about spent nuclear fuel canisters at SONGS, and across the nation.

Canisters #32 and #33 were safely downloaded. We're providing a brief update on how the work progressed.