Decommissioning San Onofre & Doing the Right Thing for the Community

We commit to safely decommissioning SONGS. We are determined to complete the safe decommissioning of SONGS as expeditiously and cost efficiently as possible. Our immediate goal is to safely move the power plant’s spent fuel, now cooling in pools, into dry cask storage as quickly and carefully as we can until the government creates the long-term storage option that it has committed to implement. We will continue to urge the government and other stakeholders to find a solution to provide the timely removal of spent nuclear fuel from the San Onofre site.

We are committed to leaving the community better off as a result of having been home to SONGS for 40 years and we will be exploring opportunities for doing so with our landlord, the U.S. Navy, and the community. The owners recognize their legal responsibility to spend the Nuclear Decommissioning Trust funds wisely and return any unused monies to ratepayers.

We want the SONGS decommissioning process to be managed in an inclusive, forward-thinking and responsible way. In particular, the current and previous owners of SONGS are committed to creating an advisory Community Engagement Panel (CEP) to bring together diverse stakeholders and create a conduit of information and ideas between the owners and the public. The CEP would ensure that all key interests are included and heard: Elected representatives of the surrounding cities and counties, the military, local environmentalists, business, labor, customer interests, and academia.