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The NRC has released a majority of the Yankee Nuclear Power Station site near Rowe, Mass., for unrestricted public use. This action completes the decommissioning of the former nuclear power station portion of the site.
Yankee's license still applies to the site's dry cask storage facility, where the spent nuclear fuel from the plant's 30 years of operation is stored, plus a small parcel of land surrounding this facility. The total land remaining under license is approximately five acres. The licensee, Yankee Atomic Electric Co., remains responsible for the security and protection of this land and the dry cask storage facility, and is required to maintain $100 million in nuclear liability insurance coverage for the facility.
Yankee Nuclear Power Station began commercial operations in 1961, and ceased production Oct. 1, 1991. Yankee Atomic Electric Co. initiated decommissioning shortly thereafter. Dismantlement and decommissioning were completed in July 2007.
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