Sentences with phrase «fuel rods next»

Exelon Corp., owner of Nine Mile Point, estimated it would cost about $ 125 million to resupply FitzPatrick with uranium fuel rods next fall, which would allow the plant to continue operating two years beyond when plant owner Entergy Corp. plans to shut it down, the administration official said.

Not exact matches

While we absorb background radiation every day, standing next to a newly removed reactor spent fuel rod for a few seconds will kill you, David Lochbaum, the Union of Concerned Scientists» (UCS) nuclear safety engineer, calculates.

There are several western states — just about all of them — with sufficient open space away from almost anything to store fuel rods for the next couple of thousand years, even if nuclear provided 100 % of US electric supply.