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

Russia has launched its third cycle of testing innovative uranium-plutonium REMIX fuel at the Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant in Saratov Oblast, a key step that advances the closed nuclear fuel cycle ...

A widespread collapse of the US power grid system—triggered by solar storms, physical attacks, or cyberattacks—could threaten nuclear facilities, including overloaded spent fuel pools.

BRATTLEBORO — When the 40-plus years worth of nuclear fuel used at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant finally leaves Vernon, it will be by rail.

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The spent fuel is stored onsite in a dry-storage container, which is basically a concrete bunker. Previously, while the plant was in operation, the fuel was in a spent-fuel pool.

The U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program said it has completed putting into dry storage all the spent fuel that was in water pool storage before Jan. 1, 2017.

The last fuel assembly is loaded into a storage container in the Unit 3 spent fuel pool at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on July 31, 2020.