Decomm Digest

Dismantlement work at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is slowly ramping up after a pause to evaluate how a worker was injured on April 11, and to prevent a similar event from occurring again. (See previous Decomm Digest post here). Though some ...

Southern California Edison welcomed Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm to SONGS on April 21 for a tour of the dismantlement work taking place and the spent nuclear fuel storage facilities. Granholm was accompanied by Edison International CEO Pedro ...

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) is set to resume water batch releases as progress on dismantling the plant continues. The releases of slightly radioactive water from the site have occurred for more than 50 years and pose no harm to ...

Though considered low-level radioactive waste, Greater-Than-Class-C, or GTCC waste, must be stored on site at nuclear plants across the country. Just as with spent nuclear fuel, there is currently no federal repository to ship it to. The Nuclear ...

Dismantlement work at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station came to a stop this week after a contract worker was injured on Monday. The event happened in a building on site near an open space in the floor, known as an equipment vault. One worker lost ...

In December, the Department of Energy effectively restarted the federal spent nuclear fuel management program when it announced a request for information, or RFI, to help create the framework for a consent-based siting process for one or more federal ...

Spent nuclear fuel is safely stored. And that’s a good thing. At SONGS, improvements have been implemented to make it even safer, such as using 316L stainless steel (highly corrosion resistant); canisters that are 5/8” thick; and building systems to ...

On a cool and windy evening last week, Ray Romero, SDS wildlife biologist, and Drew Stokes, a bat specialist, manned their posts on the southside of the Unit 3 Turbine Building looking for signs of bat colonies. While individual bats aren’t a protected ...