VERNON, Vt. (AP) — The owner of the closed Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is seeking to ship hundreds of thousands of gallons of radioactive water to an Idaho processing facility.

The Rutland Herald reports that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is evaluating responses from Entergy Nuclear after asking the company earlier this year to provide more details on a plan to dispose of 200,000 gallons of radioactive water.

The plan calls for the water to be disposed in a torus, a large structure located at the bottom of the reactor core that holds 1.1 million gallons of water.

A company spokesman says the torus holds water from other nuclear systems at the plant as part of a strategy to shut down as many systems as possible as Entergy prepares Vermont Yankee for storage.

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