U.S. nuclear plants store more spent fuel than Japan's - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | Sacramento Bee

By Renee Schoof
McClatchy Newspapers

Published: Thursday, Mar. 17, 2011 - 4:45 pm

WASHINGTON — U.S. nuclear plants use the same sort of pools to cool spent nuclear-fuel rods as the ones now in danger of spewing radiation at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, only the U.S. pools hold much more nuclear material. That's raising the question of whether more spent fuel should be taken out of the pools at U.S. power plants to reduce risks.

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