There are 73 vaults and 50 additional canisters storing 16,000 metric tons of spent fuel at the San Onofre nuclear power plant. October 2023. Pontes showed us tiny ceramic pellets that are stored ...

But not here. Simulated nuclear fuel pellets, like the ones stored inside canisters at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) In the U.S ...

Hearing says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission may ... Thousands of fuel rods, packed with uranium pellets, powered San Onofre and generated electricity for Southern California for 45 years.

It represented the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station ... the fuel rods consist of solid pellets, each slightly larger than a pencil eraser. The fuel rods, bundled into fuel assemblies ...

A worker who recently fell into the Unit 2 reactor pool at SanOnofre Nuclear Generating Station ... “The chart shows that San Onofre Unit 2 had operated for severalmonths with degrading fuel ...

7 contains many errors of fact and omission regarding the safety of the decommissioning process at the San Onofre Nuclear ... in a ceramic fuel pellet. If a spent nuclear fuel canister were ...

Yes, by 2038 (more or less), millions of pounds of spent fuel from San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and other commercial reactors could be preparing to leave their steel-and-concrete tombs ...

Southern California Edison, local communities around San Onofre, and stakeholders ... First, spent nuclear fuel is a solid pellet. Second, there’s no motive force inside the stainless-steel ...

Some of the heaviest and most troublesome radioactive material to be removed from the decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has only one exit – the imperiled railroad corridor ...

Dry storage for nuclear waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG) Should next-generation nuclear reactors be part of California’s ...

(Photo by Bill Alkofer, Orange County Register/SCNG) This Google Earth image shows how close the expanded dry storage area for spent nuclear waste will be to the shoreline at San Onofre Nuclear ...