Plutonium and uranium transfer starts at Indian Point

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By SHAWN COHEN
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: December 31, 2007)
BUCHANAN - Workers have begun transferring spent nuclear fuel roads to dry-cask storage ... Technicians started work at 10:30 a.m. yesterday ...
The rods are being placed inside helium-filled casks, then drained and dried using helium. The casks will then be transported to an onsite, 100-foot wide, 200-foot-long concrete pad ... http://www.nyjournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071231/NEWS01/712310392


Entergy begins moving spent IP fuel rods from pool to dry cask storage
... During the next 36 to 48 hours, the fuel will be dried and the canister will be welded shut. Once secured and sealed, the fuel will be placed inside a Hi-Storm cask that stands 20-feet high, 11 feet wide, with two foot thick concrete walls. When loaded with fuel, each cask weighs about 360,000 pounds. After that stage has been completed, the cask from Unit 2 will be moved to the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation pad north of the plants ...
The casks will remain there until a national repository is made available ... http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/IP_drycask-31Dec07.htm


Spent nuclear fuel being moved in NY
... The spent-fuel rods, highly radioactive but no longer able to power the reactor, have been stored vertically in racks at the bottom of the pool in a building near the reactor ... Indian Point 3 and the inactive Indian Point 1 have their own waste pools ... Three casks will be loaded at the Indian Point 2 pool, then five will be filled at Indian Point 1. The pool there is expected to be drained because it's believed to be leaking radioactive water ... http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8TSM0G80.htm

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. The pool there is expected to be drained because it's believed to be leaking radioactive water ...

How heartening. I live about 15 minutes by car from Indian Point. Last year, my son's school has asked for permission to give him sodium iodate in case of an emergency... That plant has to be closed down!