An unpleasant aspect of shutting down
Southern California's only nuclear power plant started Monday, as plant
operator Southern California Edison (SCE) laid the groundwork to begin
laying off about 600 plant workers.
The 2,200-megawatt plant on the San Diego County coast has been
closed down since January 2012 after a leak of radioactive steam at one
of the facility's two remaining reactors. SCE announced earlier this month that it would be decommissioning the plant.
SCE made the terminations official Monday by
issuing a "workforce reduction notice" targeting 600 non-union
positions. Those workers will lose their jobs within 60 days. All told
about 500 additional positions will be shed as SCE begins the long
decommissioning process at San Onofre, slashing the plant's workforce
from 1,500 to a skeleton crew of 400.
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