Vermont Yankee fuel plan gets environmental OK

Vermont Yankee spent fuel pad. Photo courtesy of Vermont YankeeVERNON — A plan to speed up the storage of Vermont Yankee’s radioactive spent fuel poses “no significant environmental impacts,” federal regulators have ruled.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission sees no environmental risk in allowing Entergy to load “hotter fuel” into sealed casks faster than previously had been permitted and in a different configuration designed to limit radiation exposure.
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