PG&E's 65 MWe Humboldt Bay Unit 3 BWR last operated in 1976 and was fully decommissioned between 2016 and 2021 under an NRC-approved license termination plan. The NRC terminated the reactor license in November 2021; spent fuel remains in an on-site ISFSI under a separate license.

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Current state

Status	License terminated
Country	United States
Location	Eureka, California
Site	Humboldt Bay Power Plant
Units	Unit 3
Unit count	1
Reactor types	BWR
Owner / licensee	Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Strategy	Deferred (SAFSTOR)
Final shutdown	1976
Decommissioning start	2016-05
Target completion	2021
Spent fuel	About 390 spent fuel assemblies in the on-site ISFSI (separately licensed).

Notes

65 MWe gross/electric per Federal Register notice; net figure not given so capacity not recorded.

Timeline

1976 — Humboldt Bay Unit 3 last operated. (source)
1984 — The reactor was permanently defueled. (source)
2016-05-04 — NRC approved the License Termination Plan. (source)
2021-11-18 — NRC terminated Facility Operating License DPR-7. (source)

The timeline is append-only: corrections are added as new entries. Stated targets appear in the current-state table, never as milestones.

Related sites

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Crystal River Unit 3 Site restoration · United States
Dresden Unit 1 SAFSTOR · United States
Duane Arnold Energy Center Restart planned · United States
Dungeness B Fuel removal · United Kingdom
Fermi Unit 1 (Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant) SAFSTOR · United States

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Sources

Pacific Gas and Electric Co.; Humboldt Bay Power Plant, Unit 3; License termination — Federal Register / NRC (primary), checked 2026-10-11
NRC removes monitoring requirements for Humboldt Bay ISFSI after decom — ExchangeMonitor, checked 2026-10-11