Southern California Edison Awards San Onofre Nuclear Plant Decommissioning Contract to AECOM, EnergySolutions Joint Venture
December 20 2016 - 08:30AM
Business Wire
Southern California Edison today announced, after a 10-month
competitive bid process, it has selected a joint venture of AECOM
and EnergySolutions as the Decommissioning General Contractor for
the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). It is one of the
country’s largest commercial nuclear plant decommissioning
projects.
“We are pleased to announce the selection of the
AECOM/EnergySolutions team, a global joint venture with extensive
commercial and government decommissioning experience around the
world, as the prime contractor to safely and efficiently dismantle
the San Onofre nuclear plant,” said Ron Nichols, SCE president. The
joint venture will be known as SONGS Decommissioning Solutions.
“SCE will maintain strict oversight of the contractor and will
continue to engage with the community and all stakeholders during
decommissioning,” Nichols said. He noted that the major
dismantlement work will not begin before 2018 when state regulators
are expected to complete their environmental review, as required by
the California Environmental Quality Act.
The project is expected to create about 600 jobs during the
10-year dismantlement phase, including workers from local
companies.
AECOM, a fully integrated global infrastructure firm, was named
one of Fortune magazine’s “World’s Most Admired Companies” in 2016.
AECOM designs, builds, finances and operates assets in more than
150 countries. EnergySolutions specializes in nuclear plant
decommissioning and waste management, and is currently in the
demolition phase of decommissioning both the Zion and Dairyland
nuclear power stations.
The $4.4 billion nuclear plant decommissioning is financed
through existing trust funds, including SCE’s share of the project
as majority owner. The total cost includes the dismantlement work
awarded to SONGS Decommissioning Solutions, continued on-site
storage of San Onofre’s used nuclear fuel until the federal
government provides a required repository and restoration
activities.
SCE shares responsibility for decommissioning with San Onofre
co-owners San Diego Gas & Electric and the city of Riverside,
and former co-owner, the city of Anaheim. When operational, San
Onofre Units 2 and 3 generated 2,200 megawatts of electricity.
SCE announced in June 2013 that it would retire San Onofre Units
2 and 3, and had begun the preparations to decommission the
facility. SCE has established core principles of safety,
stewardship and engagement to guide decommissioning. For more
information, visit songscommunity.com.
About Southern California Edison
An Edison International (NYSE:EIX) company, Southern California
Edison is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, serving a
population of nearly 15 million via 5 million customer accounts in
a 50,000-square-mile service area within Central, Coastal and
Southern California.
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