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August 3, 2012

Tab for ailing California nuke plant hits $165M

  • It would cost another $25 million to get one of the damaged reactors at San Onofre running at reduced power.
    • By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
    Associated Press

    LOS ANGELES — The tab for the long-running crisis at the San Onofre nuclear power plant in California has hit at least $165 million, and it would cost $25 million more to get one of the damaged reactors running at reduced power, officials said this week.

    Financial records released by Edison International — the parent company of operator Southern California Edison — provided a sober assessment of the troubles at the seaside plant, where malfunctioning steam generators damaged scores of tubes that carry radioactive water.


     
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