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Why swimming close to spent fuel rods is nearly impossible and dangerous!

A nuclear engineer reacts to a chilling what-if scenario: swimming in a nuclear spent fuel pool. This video explains what ...
Power Engineering

U.S. Nuclear Industry Must Improve Real-Time Monitoring of Spent Fuel Storage

The U.S. nuclear industry must do more to ensure the safety of spent fuel pools during extreme events and severe accidents to avoid another nuclear disaster similar to what happened in Japan in 2011, ...
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 ...
Rutland Herald

Entergy urged to get spent fuel out of pool

Several panel members urged Entergy to work toward moving more of its spent nuclear fuel out of the spent fuel pool and into so-called dry cask storage, which is widely viewed as safer and less prone ...
Richmond

NRC: No water in spent fuel pool of Japanese nuclear plant

WASHINGTON — The chief of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says all the water is gone from one of the spent fuel pools at Japan's most troubled nuclear plant. This means there's nothing to stop ...