EDISON INTERNATIONAL
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Feb 27, 2025.
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Decommissioning of San Onofre
The decommissioning of a nuclear plant requires the management of three related activities: radiological decommissioning, non-radiological decommissioning, and the management of spent nuclear fuel. SCE is the operating agent of San Onofre and has engaged the DGC to undertake a significant scope of decommissioning activities for Units 1, 2, and 3 at San Onofre. The decommissioning of San Onofre is expected to take many years. SCE funds decommissioning costs, including costs associated with storing spent nuclear fuel, with assets that are currently held in nuclear decommissioning trusts.
Under federal law, the U.S. Department of Energy ("DOE") is responsible for the selection and construction of a facility for the permanent disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. The DOE has not met its contractual obligation to accept spent nuclear fuel. Extended delays by the DOE have led to the construction of costly alternatives and associated siting and environmental issues. Two Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations ("ISFSI") store nuclear fuel onsite at San Onofre. The first stores nuclear fuel from all three Units ("ISFSI 1") and the second stores nuclear fuel from Units 2 and 3 ("ISFSI 2").
SCE's Coastal Development Permits, the principal discretionary permits required for maintaining the ISFSIs onsite, currently extend through 2035.
Decommissioning of San Onofre Unit 1 began in 1999 and the transfer of spent nuclear fuel from Unit 1 to dry cask storage in ISFSI 1 was completed in 2005. Major decommissioning work for Unit 1 has been completed except for certain underground work.
Decommissioning of San Onofre Units 2 and 3 began in June 2013 and the transfer of spent nuclear fuel from San Onofre Units 2 and 3 to dry cask storage in the two ISFSIs was completed in August 2020. In August 2020, SCE commenced, and is currently conducting, major decommissioning activities in accordance with the terms of the Coastal Developmental Permit for decommissioning San Onofre Units 2 and 3.
SCE's share of the San Onofre Units 2 and 3 decommissioning costs recorded for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 were $218 million (in 2024 dollars) and $226 million (in 2023 dollars), respectively. The CPUC conducts a reasonableness review of recorded decommissioning costs in NDCTPs, which are submitted every three years.
SCE filed the 2021 NDCTP with the CPUC in February 2022 to request reasonableness review of approximately $570 million (SCE share in 2022 dollars) of recorded San Onofre Units 2 and 3 decommissioning costs incurred during the period 2018 to 2020, and subsequently agreed to a $30 million disallowance under a settlement with the relevant intervenors. In the third quarter of 2024, the CPUC approved the 2021 NDCTP, as modified by the settlement agreement, and SCE made a contribution accordingly to the non-qualified nuclear decommissioning trust to effectuate the disallowance.
SCE filed its 2024 NDCTP in December 2024. In the 2024 NDCTP, SCE requests reasonableness review of approximately $538 million (SCE share in 2024 dollars) of recorded San Onofre Units 2 and 3 decommissioning costs incurred during the period 2021 to 2023. SCE also requests approval of an updated decommissioning cost estimate for decommissioning activities to be completed at San Onofre Units 2 and 3 of $3.0 billion, of which $2.3 billion is SCE's share (in 2024 dollars). The decommissioning cost estimate includes costs through the expected decommissioning completion date, currently estimated to be in 2056.
Decommissioning cost estimates are subject to a number of uncertainties including the cost and timing of nuclear waste disposal, the time it will take to obtain required permits, cost of removal of property, site remediation costs, as well as a number of other assumptions and estimates, including when the federal government will provide for either interim or permanent off-site storage of spent nuclear fuel enabling the removal and transport of spent fuel canisters from the San
Onofre site, as to which there can be no assurance. Cost estimates are subject to change as decommissioning proceeds and such changes may be material.
SCE had nuclear decommissioning trust funds for San Onofre Units 2 and 3 of $2.1 billion at December 31, 2024 and $2.2 billion at December 31, 2023. Based upon the resolution of a number of uncertainties, including the uncertainties of decommissioning discussed above, the financial performance of the nuclear decommissioning trust fund investments, as well as the resolution of a number of other assumptions and estimates, additional contributions to the nuclear decommissioning trust's funds may be required. If additional contributions to the nuclear decommissioning trust funds become necessary, SCE will seek recovery of additional contributions to the decommissioning trust through electric rates and any such recovery will be subject to a reasonableness review by the CPUC. Cost increases resulting from contractual disputes, delays in performance by the contractor, elevated levels of inflation, or permitting delays, among other things, could cause SCE to materially overrun the decommissioning cost estimate and could materially impact the sufficiency of trust funds.
In December 2024, the CPUC approved disbursements from SCE's nuclear decommissioning trusts to cover forecasted 2025 decommissioning costs for San Onofre Units 2 and 3, of which SCE's share is approximately $245 million in 2025 dollars.
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