Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage

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Spent Fuel Rods from Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Station that was located here. They will remain here. While most of the grounds were released as safe, a cask storage facility remained under NRC supervision. 533 spent fuel assemblies (weighing approximately 800 lbs each) are still on-site, contained in dry casks built of concrete and steel. These will be located at the site until the U.S. Department of Energy completes a permanent storage facility for spent nuclear reactor fuel and the spent fuel stored at Rowe can be transferred to such a future federal facility. The time frame for removal of spent fuel here is unknown.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Rowe_Nuclear_Power_Station
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Coordinates:   42°43'37"N   72°55'37"W
This article was last modified 13 years ago