Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods Threat In US

We can't take our eyes off the ball here. We need to keep up the pressure to get rid of nukes. Obama is in the pockets of the nuke industry. Yet just look at some of the facts outlined in the linked article below.

These two facts alone merit repetition -

a. "Two reactors at Indian Point – about 25 miles from New York City – have spent fuel in their pools containing about three times more radioactivity than the combined total of all four spent-fuel pools at the damaged Fukushima reactors."

and

b. "...there is no long-term storage available..."

When we add "a" and "b" together we get the formula for a catastrophe of monstrous dimensions just waiting for something bad to happen.

CS Monitor: Report: 'Unacceptable threat' from spent-fuel pools at US nuclear power plants

Spent nuclear fuel stored in water-filled pools at many nuclear reactor sites in the US far surpasses in volume and radioactivity the threat posed by such material at Fukushima, according to a new study.. The huge hazard could be largely eliminated by moving older materials from the pools into dry cask storage, it said.


Today, some 65,000 metric tons of spent fuel is stored at reactor sites around the country, 75 percent of it in US spent-fuel pools...


Typically, spent-fuel pools are rectangular, about 40 to 50 feet deep, and made of reinforced concrete walls four to five feet thick, with stainless steel liners. Those without liners may crack or corrode more often, the report says.