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The pool's water can evaporate when power problems rob it of circulating water. As the water level drops, the remaining water is heated by the radioactivity of the spent fuel.

Perry correctly pointed to the vulnerabilities of power reactor spent fuel pools to destructive geologic events. He did not, however, mention key steps that need to be taken to significantly reduce ...

The storage pool at Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station was originally licensed to hold 600 spent fuel assemblies. There are now 2,935 assemblies in the pool, or 932 metric tons of radioactive waste.

The same thing that's true for fuel rods and active reactors that have to get shut down. It's also true for spent fuel rods sitting in the pool. They're all hot and radioactive, right?

During a nuclear reaction, fuel rods generate a tremendous amount of heat. After most of the fuel has been used, the rods are removed from the reactor and kept in a separate cooling pool nearby ...

What happens if you fall into one of those pools where they store the highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel rods?

The issue that the three authors claim demonstrated the NRC's condition as a captured regulatory agency is often referred to as a spent fuel pool fire. Specifically, they are worried about the ...

A fire and blast at the building protecting a massive pool holding spent atomic fuel has taken Japan's nuclear crisis to a more critical level.

The pool’s water can evaporate when power problems rob it of circulating water. As the water level drops, the remaining water is heated by the radioactivity of the spent fuel.