The Final chapter: Planning the Decommissioning of the Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant

摘要

The mammoth plant stands today as a monument to the American utility industry's dreams of re- cycling the fuel that powers its nuclear reactors, a dream born in the golden days of commercial nuclear power. But the idea of commercial spent-fuel reprocessing, which seemed to make so much sense in the days of gasoline shortages, would remain only a dream. And today the owners of the Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant (BNFP) are moving forward with its decom- Missioning so the property can be put to other uses.