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There are also worries about the spent nuclear fuel rods that are being cooled and stored in water pools on site. Mycle Schneider says these contain far more radioactive caesium than was emitted during the explosion at Chernobyl.

"There is absolutely no guarantee that there isn't a crack in the walls of the spent fuel pools. If salt water gets in, the steel bars would be corroded. It would basically explode the walls, and you cannot see that; you can't get close enough to the pools," he said.

2 posted on 08/22/2013 5:19:54 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins

Too bad we don’t have Thorium Reactors that don’t have to be build near water sources to operate....

Too bad we don’t have thorium reactors what can “burn” the isotopes in “spent fuel rods”...

They had Thorium Salt reactors in the late 60’s at Oak Ridge, but government/General Electric/Military Industrial Complex meddling scrapped the idea because they couldn’t make bomb grade material, and GE couldn’t sell their expensive fuel pellets to the Nuclear Power industry....

We Business and Government get into bed under rule of law we all lose...

US Government and G.E. Nuclear...

Japan Government and Tepco...

The unholy alliance between business and government is just as bad a special interest groups and government and we haven;t had a free market since the early 1900’s....


18 posted on 08/22/2013 10:10:48 AM PDT by GraceG
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