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Vermont Yankee owner Entergy Nuclear won permission from the state on June 17 to build a second pad on which to store concrete-encased radioactive nuclear waste at the closed plant.
The Public Service Board (PSB) allowed the second pad on the grounds that it will have “no undue adverse effects on the environment” and will promote the state's general good by hastening the transfer of spent nuclear fuel from the pools in which it now sits.
Entergy expects to keep the storage casks on the pads until as late as 2052, by which time it is hoped the federal government will have built a permanent storage facility for the country's nuclear waste.
Until then, state officials say, the waste is better off stored inside concrete dry casks than submerged in cooling pools.
