How to store spent nuclear fuel

摘要

In "Improving Spent-Fuel Storage at Nuclear Reactors" (Issues, Winter 2012), Robert Alvarez describes a lesson relearned at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in Japan. The reactors at Fukushima and roughly one-third of our reactors have spent-fuel pools located inside the same building surrounding the containment that houses all the emergency pumps providing reactor core cooling and makeup.