Southern California Edison (SCE) has decided to permanently retire two units of its San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) on California’s Pacific coast, Edison International said in a press release.
“SONGS has served this region for over 40 years,” said Ted
Craver, Chair and CEO of Edison International, the 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.”
Units 2 and 3 of the troubled plant have been shut down since
January 2012, when a radiation leak led to the discovery of
significant damage to several generator tubes. Many feared that
the worsening conditions at the atomic power station would result
in a Fukushima-like meltdown in California.
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