Nuclear fuel pools are as safe as dry casks

Nuclear fuel pools are as safe as dry casks

Despite misinformation during the Fukushima Daiichi incident, used nuclear fuel pools are as safe as dry casks, as stated by former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko, writes Tom Kauffman, senior media relations manager at the Nuclear Energy Institute. None of the used fuel in storage pools at the Fukushima Daiichi plant was found to have incurred major damage. "There were no fires, no fuel rod incineration and no explosions in any of the fuel pools. The NRC and Chairman Jaczko confirmed this last year," Kauffman writes. The Day (New London, Conn.)