Duke Energy Signs $540M Contract for Takedown of Florida Nuclear Plant Gets Underway | 2020-10-01 | Engineering News-Record

Duke Energy Signs $540M Contract for Takedown of Florida Nuclear Plant Gets Underway | 2020-10-01 | Engineering News-Record: Takedown of the defunct 860-MW Crystal River nuclear plant in Florida now begins with final agreement reached Oct. 1 on the $540-million contract between owner Duke Energy and contractor Accelerated Decommissioning Partners initially signed last year. Work will be done under the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's immediate dismantling protocol that allows structures and equipment with nuclear contamination to be removed before radioactivity has time to decay. The utility originally planned in 2015 to defer decommissioning for 60 years to allow that decay under NRC’s SAFSTOR protocol, which . . .