Exelon files Three Mile Island decommissioning report with NRC
Source: WHTM-TV
Exelon files Three Mile Island decommissioning report with NRC
By: Myles Snyder
Posted: Apr 05, 2019 11:21 AM EDT
Updated: Apr 05, 2019 05:43 PM EDT
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (WHTM) - The owner and operator of Three Mile Island has filed paperwork with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that details plans for the power plant after its scheduled shutdown in September.
Exelon Generation said Friday that it continues to seek a legislative solution to save TMI but has a responsibility to prepare the plant for decommissioning.
In the federally required Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report, Exelon outlined a plan to dismantle the station’s cooling towers and other large components, beginning in 2074.
Facility staffing will decrease in three phases from 675 employees in 2017 to 50 full-time employees in 2022.
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Read more: https://www.abc27.com/news/local/harrisburg/exelon-files-three-mile-island-decommissioning-report-with-nrc/1902392525
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Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Three Mile Island nuclear reactor dismantling could take six decades, more than $1 billion
by Andrew Maykuth, Updated: April 5, 2019- 3:49 PM
Exelon Generation, which plans to shut down Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear reactor in September unless Pennsylvania lawmakers come to its rescue, says it would take nearly 60 years and $1.2 billion to completely decommission the Dauphin County site.
The company, in a report filed Friday with federal regulators, said it plans to remove Unit 1?s nuclear fuel from the reactor immediately after shutdown. The uranium fuel-rod assemblies would cool in spent fuel pools for three years until they are moved to above-ground sealed canisters in 2022.
But the reactor’s cooling towers and other large components would remain standing until 2074, according to Exelon’s Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report, filed Friday with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. All radioactive material would be safely stored or removed from the site by 2078.
Plant operators are required to submit a decommissioning plan within two years of shutdown, but the timing of the report provided Exelon with an opportunity to refocus public attention on pending Pennsylvania legislation that would provide ratepayer subsidies to nuclear power producers. Exelon says it is prematurely shutting down Unit 1 because it is losing money.
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Read more: https://www.philly.com/business/energy/three-mile-island-nuclear-reactor-decommissioning-plan-exelon-years-20190405.html
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