The Los Angeles City Council will take up a resolution Friday calling for Southern California Edison to apply for a formal license amendment and hold a public hearing in order to restart two reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station near San Clemente.

Unit 3 of the plant has been shut down since Jan. 31, when station operators detected a leak in one of its steam generator tubes. Inspectors later found premature wear in a number of the two-year-old tubes. Unit 2 was taken down for planned maintenance Jan. 9. Both have remained offline since under orders from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Southern California Edison submitted a plan to the NRC in early October to restart Unit 2 at 70 percent for five months.

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