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Missing Spent Fuel Pieces Found at Nuclear Plant
Technicians at a Vermont nuclear power plant Tuesday found two pieces of spent nuclear fuel at the plant’s spent fuel storage pool three months after they were reported missing, according to the Associated Press (see GSN, June 29).
The missing spent fuel pieces were found after engineers opened a previously unknown container in the pool, said Jay Thayer, site vice president in charge of Vermont Yankee for owner Entergy Nuclear. Two earlier searches of the pool conducted by robots failed to find the container, and its existence became known last week after a record was found at a California laboratory showing that the canister had been sent to the Vermont plant during the 1980s, according to AP (David Gram, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, July 13).
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