Chicago Tribune signals countdown to $1.0 billion nuclear power plant dismantling.
By November this year, Utah-based EnergySolutions will start work on the $1 billion dismantling and clean-up of the former Zio nuclear power plant 64 kilometres (40 miles) North of Chicago.
According to the Chicago Tribune newspaper, the countdown has begun to the contract on the 104 hectare (257 acre) site that will require the removal of around 14,000 cubic metres (500,000 cubic feet) of material – sufficient to fill 80 rail cars – including concrete walls, pipes, wiring, machinery, even desks and chairs. Much of it is contaminated with low-level radiation. Enough to fill roughly 80 rail cars, it will be transported to EnergySolutions’ site 80 miles west of Salt Lake City.
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