Memo to Fox News: Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Energy Are Not The Same

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21. What about Columbia Generating Station? That's the operational nuclear plant on the Hanford site.

And the spent fuel from it is stored on site.

So your statement about Hanford having nothing to do with commercial nuclear power, despite the all caps and bold, is not correct.

http://www.emd.wa.gov/telcom/telcom_columbia_generating_station.shtml

Energy Northwest (Formerly Washington Public Power Supply System or WPPSS) is the owner and operator of the only commercial nuclear power plant in Washington State. This plant, called Columbia Generating Station (formerly WNP-2), is situated on land leased from the U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) on the Hanford Site about 12 miles northwest of Richland, Washington.


http://www.energy-northwest.com/generation/cgs/waste.php

Eventually, spent fuel will be shipped to a national disposal facility being developed by the U.S. Department of Energy at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. In the meantime, Columbia Generating Station will continue to safely store its spent fuel here on site.
Most spent fuel is stored in a specially designed pool of water inside the reactor building. The water cools the fuel and acts as a shield against radiation. Columbia Generating Station has also installed an additional dry cask storage facility on site.