ProPublica: While Nuclear Waste Piles up in U.S., Billions in Fund to Handle It Sit Unused.
“There is about 70,000 tons of spent fuel stored at reactor sites around the country. Three-quarters of the material sits in cooling pools. Reactor operators have been re-racking the rods so they can fit more of them in the pools — a practice that makes the pools more radioactive and potentially more dangerous in the event of an accident.” Not good, but please don’t get the idea you’re going to ship it all to Carlsbad as a quick fix.
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