Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement The seven-week journey of a 770-ton shipment of an old but vital piece of the San Onofre nuclear power plant has been completed.The reactor pressure vessel that helped generate electricity at Unit 1 of the plant arrived last week at a licensed disposal site about 75 miles west of Salt Lake City after being shipped by rail and then over highways in Nevada and Utah. , said removing the vessel “is an important milestone” in the larger efforts to decommission the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, known as SONGS...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement The seven-week journey of a 770-ton shipment of an old but vital piece of the San Onofre nuclear power plant has been completed.The reactor pressure vessel that helped generate electricity at Unit 1 of the plant arrived last week at a licensed disposal site about 75 miles west of Salt Lake City after being shipped by rail and then over highways in Nevada and Utah. , said removing the vessel “is an important milestone” in the larger efforts to decommission the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, known as SONGS...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement A 770-ton portion of the now shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, known as SONGS for short, is slowly making its way to a final resting place at a disposal facility in Utah.A reactor pressure vessel that helped Unit 1 at SONGS generate electricity and is now at an industrial park in North Las Vegas, Nevada, about to be taken some 450 miles north on roads, accompanied by a pair Nevada Highway Patrol trooper pilot cars, to the Utah border.The shipment will then continue, reaching the in the town of Clive,...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement A 770-ton portion of the now shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, known as SONGS for short, is slowly making its way to a final resting place at a disposal facility in Utah.A reactor pressure vessel that helped Unit 1 at SONGS generate electricity and is now at an industrial park in North Las Vegas, Nevada, about to be taken some 450 miles north on roads, accompanied by a pair Nevada Highway Patrol trooper pilot cars, to the Utah border.The shipment will then continue, reaching the in the town of Clive,...WW…