The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently granted Exelon permission to move low-level waste between two of its nuclear plants.Exelon asked to transfer the waste in 2010 as storage space ran short at its Limerick plant near Philadelphia. Last week, the NRC granted the request to send waste to the Peach Bottom plant about 60 miles away. Transfers made two or three times a year will include waste with A, B and C classifications, although an NRC spokesman told the Pottstown, Pa., Mercury newspaper that roughly 95 percent will be the lowest-level class A waste.Limerick will retain responsibility for the waste it transfers, which eventually will be sent to a disposal facility. The NRC and Exelon resorted to the transfers after a disposal facility in South Carolina stopped accepting waste from plants outside of the Atlantic Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact.
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