Let me get this straight: Vermont Yankee's reactor building is going to go dark in a few years with all the old fuel removed and in the cask. This means the reactor building will be unheated during the winters.
It sounds like these people are cuckoo, leaving hundreds of thousands of gallons of extremely radioactive water in a steel tank well below the freezing point of water. The plant is not radioactive enough to keep the water from freezing!
At the end of day, what if hundreds of thousands or millions of gallons of torus water end up on the basement floor? How much more costly will decommissioning be with that?
Are the basement concrete floor and walls leakproof? I hope so?