The public is invited to a quick gold-cart tour of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station next week, the plant’s community engagement panel wrote in a press release this week.
The tour is on the slate for Aug. 17, just ahead of the panel’s next scheduled briefing with plant owner Southern California Edison, which is decommissioning the facility.
In a Federal Register notice, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week acknowledged its receipt of Energy Harbor’s July request to extend the operating permit for the Perry Nuclear Power Plant for 20 years, until midnight, November 7, 2046.
In March, Vistra Corp., Irving, Texas, announced it would acquire the Energy Harbor for about $3 billion. In its license amendment request, filed with the NRC July 3, Energy Harbor said it asked the commission to transfer the Perry operating license to Vistra by October.
Citing government sources, the English-language Kyodo News outlet of Japan reported this week that the Japanese government could allow Tokyo Electric Power Co. in August or September to release nearly a metric ton-and-a-half of treated tritiated wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
The plant suffered an explosive reactor meltdown after a tsunami in 2011.
