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The chief of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said all the water is gone from one of the spent fuel pools at Japan's most troubled nuclear plant, raising the possibility of widespread nucl ...

How the spent fuel pool problem arose. The cooling pools at US nuclear power plants are about 40 feet deep and were originally designed for temporary storage terms of about five years. After that, the ...

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.

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.

First: a spent fuel pool that loses its cooling system and has all of its water evaporate is a potentially greater source of a radiation leak than a reactor is, ...

What happens if you fall into one of those pools where they store the highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel rods? What Is the Average Weight for Women? Based on Age and Height Social Security ...

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. IE 11 is not supported.

The threat of overloaded spent fuel pools. Spent fuel pools at US nuclear plants are almost as densely packed with nuclear fuel as operating reactors—a hazard that has existed for decades and vastly ...

Westinghouse Electric Co. has developed an emergency fuel pool cooling system to keep spent nuclear fuel cool in emergency situations, including the loss of plant power.