SUMMERLIN, NEV. — The utility company in charge of a California nuclear power plant is preparing to roll out its plan to decommission the site, a representative said this week at the annual Decommissioning Strategy Forum.
“We’ll have several major announcements in the next 90 days about how the work is going to get done” at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) director of strategic initiatives Thomas Jones said Monday at the show, which is organized by the Exchange Monitor.
PG&E will provide information in this quarter about whether it will self-perform Diablo Canyon’s decommissioning or whether it will be a hybrid process between the utility and another company, Jones said. An announcement about the plant’s next dry cask’s storage system is also forthcoming.
PG&E currently operates Diablo Canyon, a two-reactor plant located on the California coast about halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The site’s Unit 1 reactor is licensed to run through 2024, and Unit 2’s license expires the following year. The company has said that the decommissioning process for each unit will begin right away, and should last about ten years.
