Holtec Decommissioning International moved all the spent fuel at the New York’s shuttered Indian Point Nuclear Energy Center into dry storage, a state agency announced Monday.
In total, the company has filled 127 concrete casks with 3,998 spent fuel assemblies that are now stored at the Buchanan, N.Y., plant’s independent spent fuel storage installations, according to the release from the New York State Department of Public Service and the Indian Point Closure Task Force.
Getting the rods packed and stored took about two-and-a-half years, according to the state agency’s presser. The transfer wrapped up a couple of months sooner than Holtec forecast during an April meeting of the Indian Point Decommissioning Oversight Board.
Indian Point’s third reactor shut down in April 2021. Holtec purchased the plant after that and has said it could finish most of the facility’s decommissioning by 2027.
