Entergy Permanently Shutters Yankee Nuclear Station in Vermont

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Entergy's (NYSE:ETR) (Saint Gabriel, Louisiana) 640-megawatt (MW) Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant has closed its doors after 42 years of operation. The facility was located in Vernon, Vermont.

Entergy announced in 2013 that it would decommission the plant at the end of 2014 for economic reasons. Plant operators said in late December that they were starting to take the facility off the power grid.

The shutdown included one steam turbine and four internal combustion units. This was the first boiling-water reactor to be ever to be mothballed.

Entergy has put the power station in SAFSTOR mode, which means that it can be mothballed for up to 60 years before a complete dismantling and decontamination of the site. Entergy said the procedure will cost $1.24 billion, and the company now has $665 million for the job.

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