Inside the Decommissioning of San Onofre Nuclear Power Station

In this video I visit the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station or SONGS for short. I was given pretty awesome access to parts of the facility after reaching out to John Dobken the Public Information Officer for SONGS. I was extremely curious as to what went into decommissioning a site like this and how radioactive some of the areas were still. My experience there was nothing short of amazing and really fed my interest in radiation and nuclear science. SONGS was permanently retired in 2013.

This video is Part 1 of my visit there. The next video will be a look inside the spent fuel pool and the dry storage of the spent nuclear fuel.

Additional camera work and stills by Colin Rich