from NEI Nuclear Notes by Mark Flanagan
Nuclear
Energy Insider has an interesting article up on the decommissioning of
Illinois’ Zion facility outside Chicago. There are some details that
suggest how this kind of work might be done
relatively quickly:
The
Zion decommissioning project will take considerably less time than
originally planned because the cleanup will bypass one of the most
laborious and time-consuming steps of taking down a nuclear plant.
According to the New York Times, the project will bypass separating
radioactive materials -- which must go to a licensed dump -- from
nonradioactive materials, which can be deposited onto ordinary
industrial landfills.
The NYT report says that the new strategy
eliminates separating the two. Instead, anything that could include
radioactive contamination will be treated as radioactive waste.
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