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SONGS Hosts Energy Workshop for Students

SONGS, in partnership with the Contributing Academic Resources to Education (CARE) Foundation, recently hosted the third annual Energy Workshop at the plant. More than 100 middle and high school students from the Capistrano Unified School District attended four workshops on nuclear generation and how the power plant operates.

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SCE and California Independent System Operator Corporation Clarify Planning Dates and Process Regarding SONGS

SCE and the California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO) seek to clarify media statements with regard to the restart of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).

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Helping Mother Earth

Dedicated to being an environmentally-responsible community partner, the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) recently sponsored Earth Day San Clemente at Parque Del Mar in San Clemente. The event celebrated Earth Day with a focus on protecting ocean water quality.

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SONGS Sponsors Whale-Watching For Special-Needs Children

SONGS recently sponsored the Festival of Whales event in Dana Point, which celebrates the return of the California Gray Whale and attracts thousands of visitors from around the world. As part of the sponsorship, SONGS received a free whale-watching excursion for 40 from Dana Wharf Sportfishing and Whale Watching.

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SCE and Scripps Institution of Oceanography To Collaborate on Offshore Seismic Research Project at San Onofre

SCE and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego will collaborate on a project to gather seismic data off the coast of SONGS.

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Southern California Edison Completes Tube Inspections in SONGS's Unit 2 Steam Generators

SCE has informed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that the company has completed additional inspections of SONGS' Unit 2 steam generators, based on Unit 3 findings.

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Welcome

If you live or work in San Clemente or the surrounding areas, we want you to have timely, accurate information about the nuclear plant in your community. Here you will find answers to questions about the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, latest news from the plant, plus information about what to do in the unlikely event of an emergency. The Nuclear Energy Institute has information about nuclear safety and nuclear energy in general. To learn more, please visit www.nei.org.

Safety First & Foremost

Southern California Edison (SCE), San Onofre's majority owner and operator, is committed to operating San Onofre safely, reliably and in full compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. We are proud of the plant's contribution as the region's largest single source of clean power generation, its economic contribution including dependable jobs, and San Onofre's ground-breaking environmental projects. But we value most the fact that the plant continues to operate safely, as it has for 40 years. That is our foremost goal – safeguarding residents and plant workers. To meet this responsibility, SCE actively partners with community, county, state and federal emergency response professionals, continuously exchanging plant information and working to improve emergency readiness. Learn more >>

Ownership

San Onofre is jointly owned by Southern California Edison (78.21%), San Diego Gas & Electric (20%), and the city of Riverside (1.79%).