EnergySolutions is closing in on another decommissioning “licensed stewardship” agreement with the La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor in Genoa, Wis., the company announced yesterday. Under the proposed agreement, EnergySolutions would temporarily take over responsibility for the license and decommissioning responsibility from the Dairyland Power Cooperative, the owner of the site. The arrangement would be similar to the one in place with Exelon in which EnergySolutions has taken over responsibility for the decommissioning of the Zion Power Plant, and eventually, Exelon will take back the license for the ISFSI.
According to EnergySolutions CEO David Lockwood, the proposed agreement is another way to leverage the company’s decommissioning experience. “EnergySolutions has been supporting Dairyland’s decommissioning efforts to date,” Lockwood said in a statement. “This agreement will allow us to leverage the resources and expertise we have gained from the Zion project with our logistics and disposal capability to accelerate the decommissioning of the LACBWR site.” Dairyland has already transferred fuel to an ISFSI, and with the help of EnergySolutions, it removed and disposed of the Reactor Pressure Vessel and other low-level, non-fuel waste in 2007.