Some 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste is beached at San Onofre. The spent fuel held in more than 120 stainless steel canisters at the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, lodged ...

A leak led to an investigation and then a shutdown. Now, more than a year later, two reactors inside the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) will be retired. The announcement that Unit 2 and ...

Dry canister storage of nuclear waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (File photo courtesy of Southern California Edison) Sept. 30, 2025, may mark the day communities in Southern ...

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has two nuclear reactors under those big domes you see when you drive south of San Clemente on Interstate 5. Now that the power plant has been shut down, Southern ...

Dry canister storage at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (File photo courtesy of Southern California Edison) Southern California Edison recently unveiled thousands of new images from inside ...

Don’t let the seemingly-eternal specter of those iconic domes fool you. Most of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is — poof! — actually no more. Southern California Edison said the plant is 84% ...

The demolition of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is entering its final phases, with work progressing on schedule to dismantle the facility's iconic twin domes by the end of 2027, according ...

The presence of 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste stored “temporarily” at the San Onofre nuclear power plant — which was permanently shut down in 2013 after severe problems with key plant equipment ...

Doomsday scenario: Terrorists commandeer a 747 and crash it into San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s dry waste storage pad. Are we all going to die? Well, yes, someday. But probably not from this.