Decomm Digest

The public access beach walkway between San Onofre State Beach to the north and south of SONGS will be closed during weekdays starting May 5.

Building demolition can be very dramatic. Think of some of the old Las Vegas hotels brought down using perfectly placed explosives that reduced those palaces to piles of rubble in a matter of seconds. This is not Las Vegas. At the San Onofre Nuclear ...

Amanda Wood stands back and watches a super sack, a large flexible container ideal for disposing of bulky items and material, as it’s slowly lowered into a railcar outside the Unit 2 containment dome at San Onofre. Over the next seven years, this scene...

Environmental stewardship is a key part of successfully dismantling SONGS. Find out how our team monitors the air, earth and water around the plant to ensure minimal impacts.

During the dismantlement of SONGS, designated Fire Watches play a critical role in maintaining high levels of safety.

Some of the water batch releases to the ocean that we began last December are increasing in volume, but still maintaining just a trace of radioactivity.

The first of what will be many railcar waste shipments left SONGS on Oct. 7 bound for Clive, Utah. Read more about that and other decommissioning activities in the first installment of Decomm Digest.

In a letter to Community Engagement Panel chairman Dr. David Victor, Holtec's CEO and chief technology officer, Dr. Kris Singh, clarified comments he made to the CEP at a meeting in October 2014. The comments regarding repair methods for a spent nuclear fuel canister, and whether such a repair could be safely undertaken, have been misconstrued by some members of the public to say a canister can't be repaired.

There is a difference between a standard manufacturer's warranty and the service life of the canisters. That difference is 75 years.