Decommissioning at a long-shuttered California nuclear power plant is complete, the company in charge of the project told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently.
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has “completed the final phase of decommissioning” at the Humboldt Bay Power Plant’s Unit 3 reactor, the utility company told NRC in a letter dated Oct. 21. PG&E requested that the commission release the site of the former Eureka, Calif. plant for unrestricted use.
At deadline Monday for Weapons Complex Morning Briefing NRC hadn’t approved PG&E’s request.
Humboldt Bay’s spent fuel and Greater-Than-Class-C waste inventories will remain onsite at an independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI), the letter said. The ISFSI, which holds 390 spent fuel assemblies, got the environmental green light on a 40-year license extension from NRC in May 2020.
PG&E started decommissioning Humboldt Bay Unit 3 in 2008. The plant operated from 1963 to 1976, when it shut down for upgrades and never reopened.
