Byline: Associated Press
Workers prepared Saturday afternoon to load the first batch of nuclear fuel into Nine Mile Point 2, the often-delayed, much-criticized and most expensive nuclear power plant in the country.
The first fuel assembly, consisting of 62, 14-foot rods of uranium, was expected to be maneuvered into place in the flooded reactor at 4 p.m., said Frank Deusel, a spokesman for Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., principal owner of the plant.
The remaining 763 fuel assemblies will be loaded into the reactor over a five-week period, he said, but the plant won't be ready to go into full service until sometime next summer.
It would then …
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