Graphs for San Onofre and Diablo Canyon from NRC daily reactor status reports, per request.
Pride of Southern California Edison Co.,
San Onofre 2 in San Clemente, California,
has been down for more than a year now, since 10 January 2010.
Interesting the way it ramps down down from 100% to below 80% over a week, almost as if
they were trying to cool it off.
Will it
stay down permanently?
San Onofre 3 has been down almost a year, since 1 February 2012. Cost of outage for both reactors so far: $317 million as of November.
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