More than 65,000 metric tons of high-level nuclear waste is stored at nuclear power plants across the country. About 75% of these spent fuel rods are stored in onsite pools. That’s 30 million spent fuel rods stored in pools at plants in the heart of local communities.
“There is an urgent need to provide increased interim storage capacity in the United States, Japan, and around the world. Failure to meet this challenge could have serious economic, environmental, and energy-security consequences.”
Conclusion reached in the Joint Report from the Harvard University Project on Managing the Atom and the University of Tokyo Project on Sociotechnics of Nuclear Energy called
Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel A Safe, Flexible, and Cost-Effective Near-Term Approach to Spent Fuel Management, June 2001
Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel A Safe, Flexible, and Cost-Effective Near-Term Approach to Spent Fuel Management, June 2001
List of Coalition of Nuclear Communities:
1.
Plymouth, MA
Home to Pilgrim Nuclear,
A Mark 1 Reactor built in 1972
License Renewed until 2032
Owned by Entergy
Plymouth, MA
Home to Pilgrim Nuclear,
A Mark 1 Reactor built in 1972
License Renewed until 2032
Owned by Entergy
Contact:
Melissa Arrighi, Town Manager
Plymouth Town Hall
11 Lincoln Street
Plymouth, MA 02360
P: 508-747-1620 ext. 105
E: marrighi@townhall.plymouth.ma.us
Melissa Arrighi, Town Manager
Plymouth Town Hall
11 Lincoln Street
Plymouth, MA 02360
P: 508-747-1620 ext. 105
E: marrighi@townhall.plymouth.ma.us
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2.
Southport, NC
Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant
Opened: 1975
Containment Type: Mark I
Owned by: Progress Energy
Southport, NC
Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant
Opened: 1975
Containment Type: Mark I
Owned by: Progress Energy
Contact :
Patrick A. Thomas City Manager
City of Southport
201 E. Moore Street
Southport, NC 28461
P: (910) 457-7988
Patrick A. Thomas City Manager
City of Southport
201 E. Moore Street
Southport, NC 28461
P: (910) 457-7988