This summer from a San Diego area, nearly 132 pounds of spent nuclear fuel was moved, the National Nuclear Security Administration disclosed Monday. It was taken in convoys to a federal facility nearly 1,000 miles away.
Special shipping casts were used in packing the enriched uranium. NNSA said this was part of a federal effort to secure nuclear material around then world within the next four years. The Department of Energy did not identify the location of the reactor site or the place where the uranium was taken.
Damien Lavera, the spokesman for NNSA said that for operational security reasons he could not disclose information on this matter The storage facility at the Idaho National Engineering and Environment Laboratory show plans to receive the fuel from two San Diego area General Atomics reactors, including one first licensed in 1958 This information was acquired from documents that were on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission website.
In an area that was remote and isolated at the time , the NNSA said the fuel was taken from a reactor built in the 1950’but now the area is surrounded by San Diego’s suburbs. The reactor was in operation nearly 49 years before being permanently being shut down. And is scheduled for decommissioning.
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