casks

Yet the investors discovered that many of the casks they had bought, had either been heavily overpriced – up to five times in some cases – or didn't exist at all.

He and other investors are now trying to track down their casks and their investments.

In one case, a damaged heap of commercial spent-fuel rods from Michigan’s Big Rock Point nuclear power plant were over-stuffed into some casks that were meant to be taken to a storage site via train.

Eventually, vitrified low-activity waste will be disposed of on-site in stainless steel casks, and a separate melter just for high-level waste will come online to manage the most toxic waste.

A winemaker shaded his casks under its limbs, then German immigrants bought the winery and turned it into a brewery.