Nuke Domes Will Have Giant Holes
Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 | Updated 11:45 AM PST
North County Times/Paul Sisson
Fishermen in a small boat eye two ocean tugs as they push twin steam generators on a barge toward the Del Mar Boat Basin at Camp Pendleton early Saturday morning. The 65-foot-long components will be installed at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
Two giant holes will be cut into the side of the landmark domes at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station this winter, as
engineers install a pair of 65-foot long, 22-foot wide steam generator, according to a published report.
The twin nuclear reactors will be shut down, and holes cut in the domed containment structures, to swap out massive generators this spring, the North County Times reported.
Southern California Edison, San Onofre's operators and majority owner, commissioned the generators -- and two more just like them that have not yet arrived -- in 2005 at a cost of $680 million, the paper reported.
For the full story read the North County Times article "Steam Generators Arrive for San Onofre."
