San Onofre plant aims to resume transfers of nuclear waste in January
Southern California Edison, the operator of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, plans to resume transferring canisters filled with spent nuclear fuel in mid-January to a newly constructed storage facility at the plant… Read more here
NRC fines Southern California Edison $116,000 for nuclear canister incident
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission hit Southern California Edison on Monday with $116,000 in civil penalties following an incident last August where a 50-ton canister filled with nuclear waste was left suspended for 45 minutes… Read more here
NRC: No transfers of canisters San Onofre until flap over scratches are sorted out
An administrator at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission offered more details about why the agency is not allowing Southern California Edison — the operator of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station — to resume moving heavy… Read more here
House Democrats want $25 million for the program to move nuclear waste
A group of 15 Democrats on Capitol Hill have requested Congress spend $25 million to support the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a consolidated interim storage program aimed at finding a place to send used fuel… Read more here
Scratches on canisters at San Onofre are no big deal, the designer says, but others worry
The contractor that designed the 50-ton canisters that hold fuel assemblies of nuclear waste at the San Onofre nuclear plant has changed the working in federal regulation to acknowledge the canisters have scratches… Read more here
Federal regulators OKs resuming transfers of nuclear waste at San Onofre
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday gave the operators of the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, also known as SONGS, the green light to resume transferring canisters filled with nuclear waste… Read more here
Where could nuclear waste go? It’s not an easy question to answer.
Earlier this month, Southern California Edison — the operators of the now-shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant — resumed transferring heavy containers filled with spent fuel assemblies from wet storage pools… Read more here
The NRC hosts a raucous town hall about San Onofre Operations
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission held a town hall Tuesday night in San Juan Capistrano to discuss the recent restart of nuclear waste transfers at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station… Read more here
Coastal Commission OKs permit to dismantle San Onofre nuclear plant
The California Coastal Commission, on a 9-0 vote, gave approval Thursday for Southern California Edison to proceed with plans to dismantle the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station where canisters loaded with nuclear waste… Read more here
The 8-year project to dismantle San Onofre nuclear plant is about to begin
Seven years after the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station officially went offline, the eight-year process of physically dismantling the plant and knocking down the domes that have loomed over the landscape of Camp Pendleton for four decades… Read more here
