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

    04/16/2011 10:53:07 PM PDT · by george76 · 8 replies
    MIT Technology Review ^ | April 14, 2011 | David Talbot
    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. This fact is likely to result in new calls to move some spent fuel out of water pools at reactor sites in the United States—where it is packed more densely than the fuel in the stricken Japanese pools—and into outdoor dry casks, experts say. "What will likely happen very quickly is that the [Nuclear Regulatory...