Three Mile Island fuel modules at DOE facility cracking
Washington (Platts)--15Apr2011/719 pm EDT/2319 GMT
The US Department of Energy facility storing melted fuel from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant has not done enough to address crumbling concrete modules encasing the radioactive material, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a letter made public Friday.
The DOE facility at the Idaho National Laboratory holds the damaged fuel from unit 2 of the Three Mile Island Plant, which, in 1979, suffered a partial meltdown of the core, leading to the US' worst nuclear accident.
The so-called spent fuel rubble is now contained in concrete storage modules located at an independent storage installation owned by DOE.
Washington (Platts)--15Apr2011/719 pm EDT/2319 GMT
The US Department of Energy facility storing melted fuel from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant has not done enough to address crumbling concrete modules encasing the radioactive material, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a letter made public Friday.
The DOE facility at the Idaho National Laboratory holds the damaged fuel from unit 2 of the Three Mile Island Plant, which, in 1979, suffered a partial meltdown of the core, leading to the US' worst nuclear accident.
The so-called spent fuel rubble is now contained in concrete storage modules located at an independent storage installation owned by DOE.
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