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Unit 2 Currently offline for planned outage.

Unit 3 Currently operating at full capacity.

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SONGS to Upgrade Key Components of Unit 2 During Planned Outage

SCE temporarily removed from service yesterday one of the two large generating units at its San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station – Unit 2 – for a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage. During the outage SCE will continue its practice of upgrading plant hardware and systems when it is possible to enhance the safety, reliability or customer cost-effectiveness of the plant.

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SONGS Adopts 43 Military Families for the Holidays

SONGS employees adopted 43 Camp Pendleton families for the holidays through the Camp Pendleton Armed Services YMCA Secret SANTA program. This program was created to provide assistance to the most junior service members with children.

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Say No to Fear-Mongering

When it comes to nuclear power and policy, scientific evidence gets short shrift indeed. While left-leaning outlets have a fondness for condemning some religious conservatives' opposition to the scientific establishment's current theories on evolution and cosmology, too many liberals are similarly hostile to the legitimate science and engineering behind nuclear power.

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Edison Supports Ocean Pollution Awareness Initiative

The Pacific Marine Mammal Center (PMMC), located in Laguna Beach, recently received a $25,000 grant from Edison to support their Ocean Pollution Awareness Initiative, a program for 4th and 5th grade students that involves increasing the knowledge and consciousness of the many issues surrounding the health of our oceans.

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SCE Dedicates one of Largest Wetland Restoration Projects on West Coast

The $90 million San Dieguito Wetlands Restoration Project that public officials and sponsors Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric and the cities of Riverside and Anaheim dedicated today (11/7) creates one of the largest West Coast estuaries.

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Alert Ended at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

Updated November 1, 2011, 6:45 p.m. PDT - At 6:07 pm PDT, SCE exited the alert declared today following an ammonia leak at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and is transitioning from emergency operations back to normal operations.

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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 federal, state and local standards. 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%). Learn more >>