SCE Awards San Onofre Spent Fuel Strategic Plan Contract to North Wind
June 13 2019 - 5:57PM
Business Wire
Southern California Edison today awarded a consulting contract
to North Wind, Inc. to develop a strategic plan that will assess
the feasibility of relocating spent nuclear fuel at the San Onofre
nuclear plant to a commercially reasonable, off-site facility.
SCE is committed to the safe, secure storage of spent nuclear
fuel, recognizing that efforts to relocate San Onofre’s spent
nuclear fuel off-site must proceed in a thoughtful,
forward-thinking and responsible way, ensuring that relevant
interests are recognized and heard. Moving San Onofre’s spent
nuclear fuel off-site is a top priority for SCE, as is safely
managing the fuel while it is on-site. There is currently no
federally licensed facility to receive spent nuclear fuel from a
commercial nuclear energy site.
The North Wind consultants will work in concert with SCE and its
Experts Team, which will support development of the strategic plan
by reviewing North Wind’s work during the anticipated 20-month
timeframe of the contract. The Experts Team is chaired by Tom
Isaacs, former Department of Energy Office of Policy director, and
includes former Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Allison
Macfarlane, both of whom have expertise in spent fuel siting and
licensing, as well as nationally recognized leaders in radiation
science, spent nuclear fuel transportation and nuclear engineering.
North Wind will also engage with a broad range of stakeholders to
learn their preferences and attitudes about spent nuclear fuel and
its eventual disposition.
“SCE looks forward to the development of a strategic plan that
brings us closer to long-term solutions for moving spent nuclear
fuel off-site,” said Kevin Walker, SCE senior vice president for
Customer and Operational Services. “The North Wind team is uniquely
qualified to lead this effort and provide a roadmap that will
benefit the local community, SCE customers, other stakeholders and
the nuclear energy industry overall.”
To develop the strategic plan, North Wind assembled a team of
experts possessing many decades of experience with spent nuclear
fuel. The team has a depth of expertise in all aspects of this
work, including policy and legal analysis, regulatory strategies
and compliance, stakeholder engagement, fuel handling and
transportation logistics and commercial and financial analysis.
Former Energy secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz will lend his considerable
expertise to developing the strategic plan.
SCE launched this effort following a 2017 settlement agreement
related to the permitting of the on-site expanded spent fuel
storage installation. SCE is optimistic that the strategic plan
will set forth practical steps that SCE can and will take to
support efforts to relocate San Onofre spent fuel to an off-site,
licensed facility.
About Southern California Edison
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Edison is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, serving a
population of approximately 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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