San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
Southern California Edison announced June 7 that it would shut down the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant.
The move comes 17 months after the San Onofre plant was closed because of problems in steam generator systems. The plant powered about 1.4 million households in Southern California before the outage.
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June 7, 2013
A Ma7 21, 1964 article noted that the plant was projected to cost about $95.7 million and generate enough power to meet the needs of 500,000 people.
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A January 29, 1968 article marked the emergence of a “huge steel ball” that could be “the first of many popping up along the Southern California coast in the next 10 to 20 years to provide a new supply of electricity and water for the nation’s fastest growing region.”
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March 9, 2013
A report released March 8 by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission provides the most detailed picture to date of how the flawed system at San Onofre was designed. It was written by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which built the generators.
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