Decomm Digest

Since San Onofre permanently shut down in 2013, we have invited the local community to visit the site through public walking tours twice a month. More than 8,000 people have joined us to learn about nuclear power, see how we are safely dismantling the ...

Improvements to the public access beach walkway and the riprap between San Onofre State Beach to the north and to the south of SONGS will begin early this summer. Work is anticipated to start the first week of June and includes demolition and repairs ...

Significant demolition remains in full swing at SONGS as work to knock down the remaining structures within the power block continues, including the main operations structures of the nuclear power plant. Between January and late March, nearly 300 ...

Significant demolition remains in full swing at SONGS as work to knock down the remaining structures within the power block, including the main operations structures of the nuclear power plant. Between Jan. and late March, nearly 300 railcars carrying ...

In our oversight role, Southern California Edison is committed to transparency in the decommissioning of the San Onofre nuclear plant and operates with a bias toward making the public aware of even low-level issues that do not affect health or safety ...

We reached another milestone in our dismantlement work at San Onofre - the demolition of the Control Building - which housed the plant's nuclear operations center. Once a vibrant epicenter of activity that generated 2400 megawatts of clean energy for ...

After four years of significant demolition of the structures at SONGS, our focus for decommissioning in 2024 is taking us deeper inside the power block – to those giant, cement structures and containment domes that housed the heart and soul of the ...

Southern California Edison welcomed Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA) to SONGS on June 9 to announce important developments in the Department of Energy’s consent-based siting process for the interim storage of spent fuel...

Back when SONGS was generating clean electricity, the plant and its operating procedures were fortified by “defense-in-depth” – an intentional design where key systems and processes are built upon layers of protection, such that if one failed, others ...