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Thursday, April 14, 2011

The Case for Moving U.S. Nuclear Fuel to Dry Storage

The Case for Moving U.S. Nuclear Fuel to Dry Storage

Nuclear waste pools are packed more densely in the U.S. than those at Fukushima, with no removal plan in sight.
One of the lesser-noted facts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster—where loss of coolant in spent-fuel pools has resulted in massive radiation releases—is that some fuel at the plant was stored in so-called dry casks, and these casks survived the March 11 earthquake and tsunami intact.
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