by Steve Skutnik
A
little knowledge is sometimes a dangerous thing - particularly when
fundamentally incomplete technical knowledge is used to make sweeping
engineering recommendations. The latest example of this is the concern
over the spent fuel storage pools at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4, which has
been getting attention from several corners. First, there was U.S.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), a ranking member of the Senate Energy and
Natural Resources committee, who recently toured the stricken Fukushima
site and released a
very widely reported statement
that, "things were worse than reported." In particular, Wyden has
singled out the spent fuel pools at Unit 4 for unique concern, calling
on both the Japanese and U.S. governments to see to it that the rods are
safely relocated elsewhere, citing their storage in unsound structures
close to the ocean. Wyden has
pushed the NRC and others to relocate these spent fuel rods to dry cask storage elsewhere.
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