Decades later, Maine Yankee plant stuck with spent nuclear fuel as feds pick up $10M tab

[jpak]

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/investigations/2019/06/19/maine-yankee-nuclear-plant-stuck-spent-fuel/1345799001/

The 11-acre site on a peninsula off the coast of Wiscasset, Maine, is home to what may be the nation’s most expensive storage facility.

At a cost of $10 million a year, the owners of the shuttered Maine Yankee nuclear power plant pay armed guards to watch 60 cement and steel canisters loaded with decades’ worth of spent nuclear fuel, each weighing 150 tons.

When Maine Yankee stopped producing power in 1996, folks in Wiscasset figured it would be a few years before that spent fuel would be shipped to Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert, where the federal government was preparing an underground repository for the nation’s nuclear waste.

That never happened. Twenty-three years later, Wiscasset is still waiting.

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[Blues Heron]

1. those dry casks aren't getting any younger either. Thanks nukers

is there a plan other than letting them rot in place?