dpb wrote:

wrote:
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one has ever decommissioned a atomic plant. They have shut them down
and keep the maintenance up because:

A: No one wants the wase in their back yard
B: No one knows how to do it.
...

That's also simply flat-out wrong. In the US alone for only commercial
(non-defense facilities) the following sites have had equipment,
structures, and portions of the facility containing radioactive
contaiminants removed or been decontaminated to a level low enough that
the property can be released and the NRC license terminated:

Big Rock Point Charlevoix, MI
Fort St. Vrain Platteville, CO
Haddam Neck Meriden, CT
Maine Yankee Wiscasset, ME
Pathfinder Sioux Falls, SD
Saxton Saxton, PA
Shippingport Shippingport, PA
Shoreham Wading River, NY
Trojan Ranier, OR
Yankee Rowe Franklin Co., MA

The following are in progress of decontamination:

Rancho Seco Herald, CA
San Onofre 1 San Clemente, CA

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Once again, "dpb" FULL OF IT!

Big Rock Point -- Fuel remains stored ON SITE.
Fort St. Vrain -- Fuel remains stored ON SITE.
Haddam Neck -- Fuel remains stored ON SITE.
Maine Yankee -- Fuel remains stored ON SITE.
Trojan -- Fuel remains stored ON SITE.
Yankee Rowe -- Fuel remains stored ON SITE.

Similarly:

Dresden I -- Fuel remains stored ON SITE.
Humboldt Bay 3 -- Fuel remains stored ON SITE.
Indian Point I -- Fuel remains stored ON SITE.
LaCrosse -- Fuel remains stored ON SITE.
Millstone I -- Fuel remains stored ON SITE.
Zion 2 -- Fuel remains stored ON SITE.
Zion 1 -- Fuel remains stored ON SITE.

For people you are truly interested in the FACTS (not the preconceptions
of clowns like "dpb"), check out:

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co...issioning.html

Several of the above reactors have been shut down for more than 3
DECADES and still have fuel stored ON SITE.