A Call for the Safer Handling of Nuclear Waste
Japan's ongoing crisis points to the need for better storage.
MIT's Technology Review has a nice piece on getting spent fuel the hell out of overloaded pools...
"The risk of such spent fuel accidents may be particularly acute in the United States. Unlike France and Japan, the U.S. government rejected recycling of spent fuel in centralized reprocessing facilities. It subsequently failed to implement its plan B: shipping spent fuel to a national repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain. The result is that spent fuel pools designed to cool fuel bundles for five years are instead packed with decades' worth of fuel bundles."
"The risk of such spent fuel accidents may be particularly acute in the United States. Unlike France and Japan, the U.S. government rejected recycling of spent fuel in centralized reprocessing facilities. It subsequently failed to implement its plan B: shipping spent fuel to a national repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain. The result is that spent fuel pools designed to cool fuel bundles for five years are instead packed with decades' worth of fuel bundles."
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