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Outcry prompts expedited plan to move fuel at Kewaunee nuclear plant
http://www.jsonline.com/business/outcry-prompts-expedited-plan-to-move-fuel-at-kewaunee-nuclear-plant-b99302369z1-265974071.html
Outcry prompts expedited plan to move fuel at Kewaunee nuclear plant
By Thomas Content of the Journal Sentinel
July 6, 2014
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The company accelerated plans to remove and encase the spent fuel to address concerns raised by members of the local community, Kanz said.
Last year, residents and officials in the Kewaunee County Town of Carlton criticized Dominion after the company said it would take the full 60 years allowed by the federal government to decommission the power plant.
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Some of the fuel will have cooled in the reactor for only three years, but most of it will have been in the storage pool much longer. NAC's technology allows for it to transfer fuel after it's cooled for four years, but it's seeking approval to transfer a small amount of fuel faster.
In order to store fuel that's been in the pool less than four years in a cask, the NRC will ask Dominion to "demonstrate that the thermal and radioactive levels of that fuel can be safely stored in the cask," said Mitlyng.
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Outcry prompts expedited plan to move fuel at Kewaunee nuclear plant
By Thomas Content of the Journal Sentinel
July 6, 2014
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The company accelerated plans to remove and encase the spent fuel to address concerns raised by members of the local community, Kanz said.
Last year, residents and officials in the Kewaunee County Town of Carlton criticized Dominion after the company said it would take the full 60 years allowed by the federal government to decommission the power plant.
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Some of the fuel will have cooled in the reactor for only three years, but most of it will have been in the storage pool much longer. NAC's technology allows for it to transfer fuel after it's cooled for four years, but it's seeking approval to transfer a small amount of fuel faster.
In order to store fuel that's been in the pool less than four years in a cask, the NRC will ask Dominion to "demonstrate that the thermal and radioactive levels of that fuel can be safely stored in the cask," said Mitlyng.
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