February 07, 2016

Meeting on Vermont Yankee ISFSI Pad Set

By ExchangeMonitor

Representatives for Entergy are scheduled to meet with the Vermont Public Service Board on Feb. 23 in Brattleboro to discuss the company´s petition for a certificate of public good that would authorize the construction of a second independent spent fuel storage installation pad at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant.

The technical hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Plans call for the installation of a large, flat concrete pad within the plant’s protected area next to a similar pad the board approved in 2006. Construction funds for the second pad would come from the plant’s estimated $600 million decommissioning trust fund. At a cost of $145 million, Entergy plans to transfer spent fuel at the site from wet to dry storage by 2020. Nearly 3,000 spent fuel assemblies would be moved into 45 dry casks.

In August 2015 the state Attorney General’s Office sued the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for allowing Entergy to use the trust fund for spent fuel management, among other things, which the state contends is not a decommissioning expense and is therefore against federal law. A decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is pending.

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