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How dangerous it would be to fall into a spent nuclear fuel pool

Spent nuclear fuel pools are designed to cool fuel rods after they come out of a nuclear reactor. While powering a nuclear ...
LAist

Explainer: What Are Spent Fuel Rods?

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PILGRIM STATION UPDATE: Holtec removes last spent fuel rods from pool

The news comes after concerns were raised that Holtec was planning to discharge a million gallons of radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay following a Nov. 22 meeting of the Nuclear Decommissioning ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Spent nuclear fuel mismanagement poses a major threat to the United States. Here’s how.

Irradiated fuel assemblies—essentially bundles of fuel rods with zirconium alloy cladding sheathing uranium dioxide fuel pellets—that have been removed from a nuclear reactor (spent fuel) generate a ...
KREM

US says plant's spent fuel rods dry; Japan says no

FUKUSHIMA, Japan -- Nuclear plant operators trying to avoid complete reactor meltdowns said Thursday that they were close to completing a new power line that might end Japan's crisis, but several ...
Times Union

State: All spent fuel at Indian Point moved to ‘safer’ dry storage

CORTLANDT — All spent fuel at the Indian Point nuclear power plant facility in Westchester County has been transferred to dry storage, the state Department of Public Service announced Monday. The ...
Reuters

Insight - After disaster, the deadliest part of Japan's nuclear clean-up

TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is preparing to remove 400 tonnes of highly irradiated spent fuel from a damaged reactor building, a dangerous operation that ...
Log Cabin Democrat

U.S.: spent fuel pool never went dry in Japan quake

WASHINGTON (AP) — Water used to cool radioactive waste at the stricken nuclear complex in Japan did not dry up, as earlier feared, U.S. regulators said Wednesday in a reversal of a claim that pitted U ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Could an attack on Ukrainian nuclear facilities cause a disaster greater than Chernobyl? Possibly, simulations show.

Editor’s note: The simulations described in this article do not reflect a current or predicted situation in Ukraine. To stay updated on the current situation at nuclear power plants in Ukraine and ...
world-nuclear-news

Call for support for LEGO nuclear power plant

A LEGO fan has designed a model of a nuclear power plant - complete with features including a used fuel pool, control room, steam turbine and cooling system as well as the reactor and operators - and ...
Reuters

U.S. warns Japan spent fuel pool may have run dry

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. nuclear regulator warned on Wednesday that one pool holding spent fuel at Japan's stricken nuclear plant may have run dry and a second could be leaking, something ...