VERNON, Vt. (AP) — A representative of the company decommissioning the Vermont Yankee nuclear power station told a state panel last week that the work was still expected to be completed within budget.
Despite being in operation for 44 years, there are low levels of contamination at the reactor building and the turbine building, Corey Daniels, the decommissioning manager for NorthStar Nuclear Group Holdings LLC, told the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel on June 14.
The Brattleboro Reformer reported the company has used about half of the decommissioning trust fund, with about $330 million remaining.
Daniels told members of the panel in the virtual meeting that it was taking longer than scheduled to dismantle the reactor core, but that the company did not think that would delay the overall project.
The material from the reactor is being shipped by rail to a radiological waste site in west Texas.
Last month, a consultant hired by the state told the same panel that it expected the company to finish the decommissioning with the available funds.
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