defuelling

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Now the only workers here are very slowly dismantling the buildings and defuelling the reactors.

Inside Chernobyl's control room, 25 years on 2011
In the US, after defuelling, the reactor compartments are cut out of the vessels and are transported inland to Hanford where they are buried as low-level waste.

Decommissioning nuclear facilities 2009
For instance, the Berkeley nuclear power station (2 x 138 MWe, Magnox reactors) closed for economic reasons in 1989 after 27 years of operation and defuelling was completed in 1992.

Decommissioning nuclear facilities 2009
Paul Wilkinson, Sizewell A site director, said: "We are very pleased to have started defuelling.

EDP24 News 2009