How do you shut down a nuclear power plant, anyway?

Yeah, I know: “very carefully.” But seriously, what’s next for Vermont Yankee – especially now that the owner, Entergy, wants to sell it to a firm that specializes in such work? (No, I don’t know how that can be a business model, but there’s lots I don’t know about business.)

VTdigger, a good independent news site in Vermont, has a story looking at cleanup happening at a similar-ish plant in Illinois. A big sticking point, as you might expect, is how to handle spent fuel rods.