BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) - The leaking of groundwater into the radioactive turbine building at the shuttered Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is creating a multimillion dollar headache for the owners.
Entergy spokesman Joe Lynch says efforts to seal the foundation appear to be paying off because the rate of infiltration had dropped to 200 to 300 gallons a day. That compares to 2,500 to 3,000 gallons a day after Vermont Yankee shut down in December 2014.
The Rutland Herald reports that Lynch told the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel that the problem has cost Entergy $3.2 million so far.
The water leaking into the building is collected from by series of sumps. Lynch says more than 623,000 gallons of water have been shipped to Tennessee for treatment and disposal.
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Information from: Rutland Herald, http://www.rutlandherald.com/
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