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out following Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami include
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Edison Plans to Permanently Close San Onofre Nuclear Reactor (1)
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FLASH: SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION TO BE RETIRED
Southern California Edison Announces Plans to Retire San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
Southern California Edison Announces Plans to Retire San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
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Southern California Edison Announces Plans to Retire San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Company Will Continue Its Work with State Agencies on Electric Grid Reliability ROSEMEAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Southern California Edison (SCE) has decided to permanently retire Units 2 and 3 of its San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). "SONGS has served this region for over 40 years," said Ted Craver, Chairman and CEO of Edison International, parent company of SCE, "but we have concluded that the continuing uncertainty about when or if SONGS might return to service was not good for our customers, our investors, or the need to plan for our region's long-term electricity needs.read more
Southern California Edison Announces Plans to Retire San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Company Will Continue Its Work with State Agencies on Electric Grid Reliability
Southern California Edison Announces Plans to Retire San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
Company Will Continue Its Work with State Agencies on Electric Grid Reliability
ROSEMEAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Southern
California Edison (SCE) has decided to permanently retire Units 2 and 3
of its San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).
“this is an extraordinary team of men and women. We will treat them fairly.”
“SONGS
has served this region for over 40 years,” said Ted Craver, Chairman
and CEO of Edison International, parent company of SCE, “but we have
concluded that the continuing uncertainty about when or if SONGS might
return to service was not good for our customers, our investors, or the
need to plan for our region’s long-term electricity needs.”
Both
SONGS units have been shut down safely since January 2012. Unit 2 was
taken out of service January 9, 2012, for a planned routine outage. Unit
3 was safely taken offline January 31, 2012, after station operators
detected a small leak in a tube inside a steam generator manufactured by
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). Two steam generators manufactured by
MHI were installed in Unit 2 in 2009 and two more were installed in
Unit 3 in 2010, one of which developed the leak.
In
connection with the decision, SCE estimates that it will record a
charge in the second quarter of between $450 million and $650 million
before taxes ($300 million - $425 million after tax), in accordance with
accounting requirements.
After
months of analysis and tests, SCE submitted a restart plan to the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in October 2012. SCE proposed to
safely restart Unit 2 at a reduced power level (70 %) for an initial
period of approximately five months. That plan was based on work done by
engineering groups from three independent firms with expertise in steam
generator design and manufacturing.
The
NRC has been reviewing SCE’s plans for restart of Unit 2 for the last
eight months, during which several public meetings have been held. A
recent ruling by an adjudicatory arm of the NRC, the Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board, creates further uncertainty regarding when a final
decision might be made on restarting Unit 2. Additional administrative
processes and appeals could result in delay of more than a year. During
this period, the costs of maintaining SONGS in a state of readiness to
restart and the costs to replace the power SONGS previously provided
would continue. Moreover, it is uneconomic for SCE and its customers to
bear the long-term repair costs for returning SONGS to full power
operation without restart of Unit 2. SCE has concluded that efforts are
better focused on planning for the replacement generation and
transmission resources which will be required for grid reliability.
“Looking
ahead,” said Ron Litzinger, SCE’s President, “we think that our
decision to retire the units will eliminate uncertainty and facilitate
orderly planning for California’s energy future.”
Litzinger
noted that the company has worked with the California Independent
System Operator, the California Energy Commission and the California
Public Utilities Commission in planning for Southern California’s energy
needs and will continue to do so.
“The
company is already well into a summer reliability program and has
completed numerous transmission upgrades in addition to those completed
last year,” Litzinger said. “Thanks to consumer conservation, energy
efficiency programs and a moderate summer, the region was able to get
through last summer without electricity shortages. We hope for the same
positive result again this year,” Litzinger added, “although generation
outages, soaring temperatures or wildfires impacting transmission lines
would test the system.”
In
connection with the retirement of Units 2 and 3, San Onofre anticipates
reducing staff over the next year from approximately 1,500 to
approximately 400 employees, subject to applicable regulatory approvals.
The majority of such reductions are expected to occur in 2013.
“This
situation is very unfortunate,” said Pete Dietrich, SCE’s Chief Nuclear
Officer, noting that “this is an extraordinary team of men and women.
We will treat them fairly.” SCE will work to ensure a fair process for
this transition, and will work with the Utility Workers Union of America
(UWUA) and the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers (IBEW) on
transition plans for the employees they represent.
SCE
also recognizes its continuing safety responsibilities as it moves
toward decommissioning of the units. SCE’s top priority will be to
ensure a safe, orderly, and compliant retirement of these units. Full
retirement of the units prior to decommissioning will take some years in
accordance with customary practices. Actual decommissioning will take
many years until completion. Such activities will remain subject to the
continued oversight of the NRC.
SCE
intends to pursue recovery of damages from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,
the supplier of the replacement steam generators, as well as recovery
of amounts under applicable insurance policies.
For updates, please visit www.SONGScommunity.com, or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/SCE_SONGS and on www.facebook.com/SCE.
San
Onofre is jointly owned by SCE (78.21 percent), San Diego Gas &
Electric (20 percent) and the city of Riverside (1.79 percent).
About Southern California Edison
An
Edison International (NYSE:EIX) company, Southern California Edison is
one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, serving a population of
nearly 14 million via 4.9 million customer accounts in a
50,000-square-mile service area within Central, Coastal and Southern
California.
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