Decomm Digest

The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) sits on land leased from the Navy which is part of Marine Corps Base–Camp Pendleton. Next month, a portion of the land on the eastside of Interstate 5 will be returned to the Navy after years of ...

In July 2020, workers removed the last of the spent nuclear fuel assemblies from the Unit 3 pool at SONGS and placed them into a stainless-steel canister that was then welded shut. That canister then began a slow and steady journey to the UMAX dry ...

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.