Fuel from Vermont Yankee unloaded to the pool

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AtomInfo.Ru, PUBLISHED 13.01.2015

The fuel is discharged from the core of the permanently shut down reactor of Vermont Yankee NPP in the United States, news agencies reported.

The irradiated assemblies were transferred to the spent fuel pool. Subsequently it is planned to unload the pool and move the spent fuel in the dry storage.

The Vermont Yankee NPP consists of a single unit with boiling water reactor BWR. It was commissioned on 30 November 1972, the final shutdown took place in December 2014.

Topics: Decommissioning, USA

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