U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Environmental group requests hearing process on San Onofre restart

2013-05-24 12:20:00

An environmental group filed a motion Friday asking federal regulators to set up trial-like public hearings before deciding on a proposal by Southern California Edison to restart its troubled San Onofre nuclear plant. The plant has been out of service...

Aftershocks shake Northern California after 5.7 earthquake

2013-05-23 22:03:00

More than a dozen aftershocks were reported Thursday night following a 5.7 earthquake about 150 miles northeast of Sacramento, officials said. The initial quake hit about 8:47 p.m.; its epicenter was about 27 miles southwest of Susanville and seven...

Magnitude 5.7 earthquake hits Northern California

2013-05-23 21:15:00

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Northern California on Thursday night and was felt across a large area, according to officials. The quake was occurred around 8:47 p.m., and its epicenter was 27 miles southwest of Susanville and seven miles west...

Sen. Boxer presses NRC head on San Onofre's future

2013-05-23 14:36:00

During a renomination hearing before the U.S. Senate's Environment and Public Works committee Thursday, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) pressed U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairwoman Allison Macfarlane on the agency's plans for the San Onofre nuclear...

Edison employees shot 'Star Trek' spoof video at San Onofre

2013-05-23 11:40:00

Southern California Edison�managers�dressed as "Star Trek" characters shot a spoof video at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The video, obtained and aired by KGTV news in San Diego, was shot in the plant's training simulator in 2010, before...

Letters show rift over San Onofre nuclear repairs

2013-05-19 15:30:00

In a flurry of letters late last year, Southern California Edison and the manufacturer that designed the steam generators at the now-dark San Onofre nuclear power plant appeared to be at odds over a long-term plan to repair the troubled facility. In the...

Edison, Mitsubishi hit roadblock on San Onofre's future

2013-05-15 20:19:00

A flurry of letters that went back and forth between Southern California Edison and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries late last year reveal the serious hurdles that stand in the way of the San Onofre nuclear power plant's long-term future. The plant had...

Decision on San Onofre pushed back to June at the earliest

2013-05-14 19:16:00

The head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday that the agency will not make a decision on whether to restart the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant until late June at the earliest. The timeline for the plant has been pushed back...

California faces another summer without San Onofre plant

2013-05-07 00:00:00

California energy officials are preparing for another summer without the San Onofre power station while facing the growing possibility that the nuclear plant will never return to service. The nuclear plant, one of only two in the state, was powered down...

The dubious future of the San Onofre nuclear plant

2013-05-06 16:24:00

Southern California Edison officials are saying that if they can’t get permission to reopen one of the shuttered reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, they will consider permanently closing the plant this year, according to a report...

San Onofre ruling creates confusion

2013-05-13 19:24:00

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and an environmental group came to vastly different interpretations Monday of a federal review panel's decision Monday on the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant. The plant's owner, Southern California Edison,...

Groups continue push for video webcast of San Onofre hearings

2013-05-13 08:30:00

An initial round of hearings was set to begin Monday in a California Public Utilities Commission investigation of the costs to ratepayers from the San Onofre nuclear plant's ongoing outage. Activists were incensed that a CPUC administrative law judge...

Chuck Casto visits Exelon Corp.'s nuclear power plant in Byron, Ill. Casto started in May as the new administrator for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Midwest region; his office in Lisle oversees 16 nuclear power plants in seven Midwestern states, including Illinois.

2013-02-20 00:00:00

Palisades nuclear power plant (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

2013-02-19 13:25:00

Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Covert, Mich. (PHOTO/Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

2012-09-26 00:00:00