Vermont Yankee restarts fuel move

Dry casks hold spent nuclear fuel at shutdown Vermont Yankee in Vernon. Photo courtesy of Vermont Yankee
After a nearly two-month hiatus, crews have resumed storing Vermont Yankee’s radioactive spent fuel in sealed casks.
The $143 million project came to an abrupt halt in early March after plant owner Entergy received word of a potential problem with similar casks at another nuclear site.
But there have been no problems discovered in Vernon, and Entergy is pushing ahead with the fuel-stora