LA Times by Rob Nikolewski 7/21/2020
The seven-week journey of an old but vital piece of the San Onofre nuclear power plant, a shipment weighing in at 770 tons, has been completed.
The reactor pressure vessel that helped generate electricity at Unit 1 of the plant arrived last week at a licensed disposal site about 75 miles west of Salt Lake City after being shipped by rail and then over highways in Nevada and Utah.
The removal of the vessel “is an important milestone†in the larger efforts to decommission the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, or SONGS, said Doug Bauder, vice president at Southern California Edison and chief nuclear officer at the facility.
“The project required detailed planning and coordination between the SONGS oversight team and our contractors,†Bauder said in an email. “From start to finish, the project was done with safety as the top priority.â€
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