8-K

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                                                   UNITED STATES
                                        SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                                              Washington, D.C. 20549


                                                     FORM 8-K


                                                  CURRENT REPORT

                      Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934


                        Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 21, 2004



                                               EDISON INTERNATIONAL
                              (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)



                 CALIFORNIA                           001-9936                              95-4137452
        (State or other jurisdiction                 (Commission                         (I.R.S. Employer
              of incorporation)                     File Number)                        Identification No.)


                                             2244 Walnut Grove Avenue
                                                  (P.O. Box 800)
                                            Rosemead, California 91770
                           (Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

                                                   626-302-2222
                               (Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

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         This current report includes forward-looking statements.  These forward looking statements are based on
current expectations and projections about future events based on knowledge of facts as of the date of this
current report and assumptions about future events.  These forward-looking statements are subject to various
risks and uncertainties that may be outside the control of Edison International and its subsidiaries.  Edison
International has no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result
of new information, future events, or otherwise.

                                             Section 8 - Other Events

Item 8.01  Other Events.

         As previously disclosed, Southern California Edison Company's San Onofre nuclear plant has experienced
degradation in its steam generator tubes, and the company is planning for replacement of the steam generators in
2009 and 2010.  The San Onofre units each include a pressurizer tank that contains 30 heater penetrations
fabricated from the same material used in the steam generator tubes.  These penetrations, also known as sleeves,
are 13-inch long sections of pipe welded into the bottom of the pressurizer.  During the current Unit 3 refueling
outage, Southern California Edison performed inspections of two sleeves and found evidence of degradation.
Degradation of the pressurizer sleeves has been a concern in the nuclear industry for some time, and Southern
California Edison had been planning to replace all of the sleeves in Units 2 and 3 during the next refueling for
each unit in 2005 and 2006.  Southern California Edison has decided to move the planned replacement of Unit 3's
pressurizer sleeves forward from 2006 to the current outage.  This extra work will lengthen the current outage
from 55 days to the range of 95 to 110 days.  Extending the current outage to do this work now allows Southern
California Edison to move the 2006 refueling outage, previously scheduled for the summer of 2006, out of the peak
summer period to the fall or winter of 2006.  Southern California Edison will incur about $9 million of capital
expenditures during 2005 that otherwise would have occurred in 2006.  Southern California Edison plans to replace
the pressurizer sleeves in Unit 2 during its next scheduled outage in 2005.

         During the current outage, Southern California Edison also conducted a planned inspection of the Unit 3
reactor vessel head and found indications of degradation.  Although the degradation is far below the level at
which leakage would occur, Southern California Edison plans to make repairs during the current outage using
readily available tooling and a Nuclear Regulatory Commission-approved repair technique.  While this is San
Onofre's first experience of this kind of degradation to the reactor vessel heads, the detection and repair of
similar degradation at other plants are now common in the industry.  SCE plans to replace the Unit 2 and Unit 3
reactor vessel heads during refueling outages in 2009-2010.

         The California Public Utilities Commission will review the reasonableness of outage-related capital
costs and replacement power costs in future ratemaking proceedings.  Southern California Edison believes the
costs are reasonable, recovery of the costs should be authorized, and that the acceleration of the needed repairs
should not impact its earnings.

         On October 21, 2004, Southern California Edison issued a press release announcing the planned
replacement and repair activities.  A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1.



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                                   Section 9 - Financial Statements and Exhibits

Item 9.01  Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(c)      Exhibits

         See the Exhibit Index below.



                                                    SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this
report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


                                                          EDISON INTERNATIONAL
                                                          (Registrant)


                                                          /s/ KENNETH S. STEWART
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                                                          KENNETH S. STEWART
                                                          Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary

DATE:  OCTOBER 21, 2004



                                                   EXHIBIT INDEX


Exhibit No.             Description

99.1                    Press Release of Southern California Edison Company of October 21, 2004.

EX-99.1

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY LOGO                                                        News Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


                                                                           Contact:  Raymond Golden, (949) 368-9880
                                                                                                 www.edisonnews.com

                                    SCE Extends Current SONGS Refueling Outage

         ROSEMEAD, Calif., Oct. 21, 2004 - Officials of Southern California Edison (SCE) today announced the
extension of the current scheduled refueling and maintenance outage of its San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
(SONGS) Unit 3 in order to replace certain components in which degradation has been detected.  Tubes, called
"sleeves," containing electric heating elements that are part of a "pressurizer" are replaced when inspections
reveal signs of degradation.  Standard maintenance procedures include either replacing them individually or all
at once, as SCE has elected to do in this case in order to maximize efficiencies.  This equipment replacement
process occurs at other U.S. nuclear plants of this type and poses no danger to the public.

         The degradation discovered in Unit 3 was anticipated.  SCE had in place a contingency plan to do this
repair in the current outage and that plan is now being implemented.  Extending the current outage to do this
work allows SCE to move the 2006 refueling outage, previously scheduled for the summer of 2006, out of the peak
summer period to the fall or winter of 2006.

         "Doing this maintenance work now will help ensure that Unit 3 is online during the critical summer
period of 2006," said SCE Chief Executive Officer Alan Fohrer.  "In addition, replacement power costs are lower
now than during summer months when supplies are tighter and prices are typically higher."

         Utility officials indicated that inspections of two of the 30 Unit 3 heater sleeves revealed no
radioactive leaks.  However, inspection crews did discover the type of degradation that triggers this replacement
process.  The Unit 3 refueling and maintenance outage that began on Sept. 28 originally was scheduled to last 55
days.  The unit now will return to service in late December 2004 or January 2005.

         A second maintenance project underway during the current outage involves repairing degradation common to
plants of this type found in the Unit 3 "reactor vessel head."   As with the heater sleeve inspection and repair
process, no radioactive leaks resulted from the reactor head degradation and the repair process poses no risk to
the public.

         All repair procedures used by SCE crews conform to Nuclear Regulatory Commission guidelines.

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         An Edison International (NYSE:EIX) company, Southern California Edison is one of the nation's largest
electric utilities, serving a population of more than 13 million via 4.6 million customer accounts in a
50,000-square-mile service area within central, coastal and Southern California.