Decomm Digest

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 ...

The undersea Volcano that spawned tsunami waves that devastated the island nation of Tonga and caused damage to various locations along the Pacific Rim, also spawned another round of misinformation from various SONGS activists. One Op-Ed in particular ...

First – our thoughts are with the people of the Tonga Islands and the region following the massive eruption of an undersea volcano that spawned a tsunami that has traveled across the Pacific Rim.The video below is from the Tonga Islands and shows the ...

Southern California Edison in December filed a request for an exemption with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to slightly reduce the Controlled Area Boundary that surrounds the dry fuel storage system at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station ...