The license for Pacific Gas & Electric Company's Humboldt Bay Unit 3 nuclear power plant near Eureka, Calif., has been terminated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the site has been released for unrestricted use. A 65-MWe boiling water reactor plant, Humboldt Bay-3 operated commercially from 1963 to 1976. After decommissioning the facility to meet the NRC's radiation protection standards, PG&E in October submitted final status surveys of the Unit 3 site and requested license termination. The NRC said that its staff evaluated the surveys, conducted inspections, and reviewed confirmatory analyses before concluding that the site meets its criteria for license termination for unrestricted use.
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