"This nuclear waste has been sitting in CT for 50 years. Could it finally be removed?"

"For over half a century, Connecticut’s Millstone Nuclear Power Plant has played host to the spent uranium fuel used to power its three reactors. According to federal regulators, it will be at least another decade until that radioactive fuel has anywhere else to go.

In addition to Millstone, Courtney’s district is also home to a repository of spent nuclear fuel at the site of the former Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Haddam, which was decommissioned in 1996.

Together, the two sites housed 2,441 metric tons of spent uranium as of 2021, the last year for which statistics were available from the Nuclear Energy Institute."

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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/department-of-energy-spent-nuclear-fuel-storage-ct-17924070.php

#Fox61 showing images of large, fallen trees (onto a #Windsor house, and onto a car in #Haddam).
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