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To: arno who wrote (42)	7/17/2004 8:25:29 PM
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Millstone to store spent fuel rods on site Millstone to store spent fuel rods on siteWaterford -- Millstone nuclear power plant provides electric power to 48 percent of Connecticut. It is scheduled to continue generating for at least another 40 years and now the plant is moving toward storing spent fuel rods on site. Dorothy Cheo and her husband have lived in the shadow of Millstone for 20 years. Now that construction is underway to store spent fuel rods and other material on the surface at Millstone, she says it does not interfere with their life. "Unless we have some alternative energy, we're stuck with it,"said Cheo. Right now contractors are excavating an old parking lot; removing the soil right down to the bedrock. This half football field size area will be filled with concrete, 18 feet deep and serve as a foundation pad to support up to 135 bunkers the size of a one car garage. However, Dominion, which owns Millstone, only has permission from the state to install no more than 49 bunkers for the next two decades. "We really want to make sure we have a solid facility, than can store the waste for a long period of time and safely,"said Pete Hyde, Millstone spokesperson. The fuel assemblies in a stainless steel casks which will then be inserted into a concrete fixture, which will have an additional 5 feet of concrete on top. Mike Perzenski is familiar with the dry casks storage system and he has one concern. "The big thing I hear people questioning about ... will waste from out of state be shipped in?"he said. The concrete pad portion of the project will be wrapped up in October. The storage phase will not begin until late winter of 2005.