Los Angeles Times: Nuclear Plant Missing Parts of a Fuel Rod

Update: Wait, I think they’re in the back of my truck

Montpelier, Vt.—Three weeks after Yankee Reactor officials orchestrated an organized search for two missing fuel rod elements, employee Darryl Jeffries indicated that he may have left the items in the back of his truck. “I’m not sure what I was doing with them…” he stated, “but I’m pretty sure that they’re in my truck box… I just noticed this morning when I went out to get a screwdriver and noticed that my tape measure and socket wrench set had just about melted.” Hazmat teams have since surrounded Jeffries’ truck, which is sitting in the Yankee Reactor parking lot, as experts consider towing the truck to a hazardous waste facility in lieu of extracting the rods. Jeffries states that he’s felt no ill effects “The dog has been sick but the wife and kids have been fine... Allen— that’s my eight year old son— even deadlifted the refrigerator this morning.”

- posted by JB @ 7:24 AM