Vermont Yankee fuel move into more-secure storage is delayed

Crews place rebar for a second fuel pad at Vermont Yankee. The pad will hold casks containing radioactive spent nuclear fuel, which currently is stored in a cooling pool in the Vernon plant’s reactor building. Photo courtesy of EntergyVERNON – In April, crews were supposed to have begun the expensive, high-security transfer of Vermont Yankee’s spent fuel into sealed casks.
But that work has not started, and plant owner Entergy has reduced its projections for how many casks will