Restart of San Onofre reactor delayed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station's Unit 2 reactor, scheduled to restart in mid-January after about a four-month shutdown, won't be powered up for a few more weeks because of unexpected repairs, according to a plant official. The reactor was shut down in September to prepare for new steam generators, which were installed in November. When plant workers recently were inspecting the welding around the two 640-ton steam generators, they found air pockets in some of the welds on one generator, said Ross Ridenoure, San Onofre's chief nuclear officer. The two generators, which surround the nuclear reactor, are each welded to the ground in three spots under a containment d...

Nuclear plant pipe failures can threaten safety A rash of recent failures in the buried piping systems of nuclear reactors - including one at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station - has ...

The Orange County Register Now, Southern California Edison is preparing to restart the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station's Unit 2 reactor, the northernmost of two domes you can ...

	San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Unit 2 and Unit 3 Temporary Exemption NPF-10 and NPF-15, which authorize operation of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 2 and 3 (SONGS 2 and 3), respectively. The licenses provide, among other things, that the facility is subject to all rules, regulations, and orders of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) now or hereafter in effect.The facility consists of two pressurized-water reactors (PWRs) located in San Diego County, California.2.0 Request/ActionPursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Section 50.12, "Specific exemptions," SCE has, by letter dated January 30, 2009, as supplemented by letters dated March 16 and September 29,... Local News You Can Use Workers at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) started reloading nuclear fuel into the Unit 2 reactor Tuesday afternoon as ... Reactor outage will be longer than expected SAN ONOFRE ---- An official with Southern California Edison announced Friday that San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station's Unit 2 reactor will remain shut ... Local News You Can Use Southern California Edison, operators of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, expects to bring Unit 2 back into full operation ... Local News You Can Use ... tell Southern California Edison executives that safety improvements are coming along too slowly at its San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). ... Umar Farouk's Terrorist Triumph ... happened on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 would be if mechanical engineer Abdulmutallab were hired to work at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. ... Local News You Can Use ... Committee tell Southern California Edison executives that safety improvements are coming too slowly at its San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. ...