Vermont Yankee to move fuel in spring

BRATTLEBORO – Vermont Yankee’s radioactive spent fuel soon will be on the move.

In April, a contractor will begin loading the shut-down Vernon nuclear plant’s fuel into sealed casks, which will be placed on a concrete pad.

The fuel is not going far: The pad is a short walk from the plant’s reactor building, where thousands of spent fuel assemblies currently are stored.

But the move is important for two reasons. It’s central to a proposed sale of Vermont Yankee, and it also will be a closely watched, tightly controlled transfer of hazardous material.

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