ISFSI - List Of Orphaned Spent Fuel Pools In The USA, 2,800 Tons Of Stranded Spent Fuel With No Place To Go, 78,000 Tons Total

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ISFSI - List Of Orphaned Spent Fuel Pools In The USA, 2,800 Tons Of Stranded Spent Fuel With No Place To Go, 78,000 Tons Total

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What is a spent fuel pool?

The Nuclear Energy Institute describes what it is in a very positive, glowing manner.
http://youtu.be/G_h4mCCzsbs

US spent fuel pools contain 78,000 tons of nuclear garbage with no place to put it. Spent fuel pools at nuclear reactor sites contain an average of 500 to 700 tons of highly radioactive toxic products each, with no long term plan on what to do with this. 
http://youtu.be/EcKpypwyZM8

For a longer, more realistic and down to earth description about spent fuel pools, listen to Robert Alvarez below. 

http://youtu.be/q-YTgCXJ3nw
Robert Alvarez, former senior adviser to the U.S. Department of Energy, is currently a senior researcher at the Institute of Political Studies, where he works on the subject of nuclear disarmament, the environment and energy policies. 

He speaks here of the dangers of low secure storage of spent nuclear fuel in many plants, Japan or the United States pools. Fukushima proved the dangers of spent fuel pools, as they are open to the air, and has huge amounts of radiation. There is no strong containment, as there is with nuclear reactors. Some are located 100 feet above the ground.

SPENT FUEL POOL ABANDONED AND LEFT TO ROT AT SELLAFIELD

In the UK, a whistleblower found that a spent fuel tank was completely abandoned, despite being full of spent fuel that could have resulted in disaster, or terrorist attack. The tank was completely unguarded. 

Sellafield current conditions leaked photos
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pictures-sellafields-crumbling-tanks-radioactive-4539565

What safeguards are in place at US nuclear facilities that have 'orphaned' spent fuel pools where no nuclear power plant exists anymore? Who is paying to guard them, maintain them and keep them full of water, proper chemical balance, etc?

WHAT HAPPENS IF A SPENT FUEL POOL LOSES COOLING WATER OR PUMPS FAIL?

At Fukushima, the water did not drain out of the spent fuel pools. The pumps failed as the power supply was cut off by an earthquake. Then the water heated up in the spent fuel pools until it boiled off. The fuel rods got exposed and caught on fire spontaneously. Two of the spent fuel pools at Fukushima melted out, possibly more.

If water drains out of a spent fuel pool while it is sitting 100 feet up in the air, the radiation levels get so high, that emergency crews cannot respond due to lethality of the radiation, 50 yards away. The spent fuel can and does catch on fire spontaneously when the water gets below the tops of the fuel rods, and definitely by the time the pool dries out.

Being anywhere close to a spent fuel rod means very quick death, due to the high radiation levels. It is one of the most hazardous substances on Earth. Spent fuel pools can and do catch on fire and melt out, as proven more than once at Fukushima.

2 OR MORE SPENT FUEL POOLS CAUGHT ON FIRE AND MELTED OUT AT FUKUSHIMA


What Really Happened At Fukushima Reactor And Spent Fuel Pool #3? via @Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-really-happened-at-fukushima.html

Multiple Fukushima Spent Fuel Pools Burned And Vaporized, 600 - 6000 Pounds Plutonium Released; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/11/25-of-2-50-of-3-100-of-4-spent-fuel.html

AGreenRoad - TEPCO/Fukushima Lies Exposed Around Building #4, SFP, Core. Equipment Pool, Melt Out; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/12/agreenroad-tepcofukushima-lies-exposed.html

There is a huge burden being imposed on humanity with every spent fuel pool. Just one spent fuel pool catching on fire and melting out is much worse than a nuclear war with 900 nuclear bombs, in terms of the amount of radiation released. (See graphic below) 

No one knows what to do with the spent fuel in the spent fuel pools. There is no permanent repository for high level nuclear waste. As a result, the nuclear waste just keeps building up and is stuffed into pools, which then requires more and more artificial cooling, which increases the risk of a catastrophic failure, just like what happened at Fukushima. It is amazing how the spent fuel pool fires and melt outs where completely covered up. 

ORPHAN SPENT FUEL POOLS


As of November 2010, there were 63 “independent spent fuel storage installations” (or ISFSIs) licensed to operate at 57 sites in 33 states. These locations are shown on a map on the NRC website at:http://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/locations.pdf. Over 1,400 casks are stored in these independent facilities.




What is an "ISFSI"?

An independent spent fuel storage installation, or ISFSI, is a facility that is designed and constructed for the interim storage of spent nuclear fuel. These facilities are licensed separately from a nuclear power plant and are considered independent even though they may be located on the site of another NRC-licensed facility.

TONS OF NUCLEAR FUEL IN STORAGE ACROSS THE US



CLOSED NUCLEAR PLANTS WITH ORPHAN OR STRANDED SPENT FUEL ON SITE


An 'orphaned' spent fuel pool is a pool that is full of highly radioactive spent fuel that was removed from a nuclear reactor, and is now just sitting there, without any associated nuclear power reactor. The nuclear power plant was closed and decommissioned, but the spent fuel was just left there, all by itself, because there is no place else to put it. It will remain dangerous for the next 1 million years. What are the odds that these spent fuel pools will be there that long? 

What are the odds that something REALLY bad will happen to one or more of these 'orphans' long before then?

2014 NRC REPORT - SPENT FUEL LOCATED AT DECOMMISSIONED NUCLEAR REACTOR SITES


How much fuel is stored at decommissioned reactors? Is it in pools or casks?

There are currently 10 decommissioned nuclear power reactors at 9 sites with no other nuclear operations. According to a 2008 Department of Energy report to Congress, approximately 2800 metric tons of spent fuel is stored at these nine sites. As of the writing of that report, seven of the sites had independent spent fuel storage installations, or ISFSIs. Two additional sites had approximately 1000 metric tons of spent fuel remaining in pool storage.


DANGER POSED BY JUST ONE SPENT FUEL POOL

Very few people understand that what danger lurks in a spent fuel pool at a nuclear plant. If anything happens, just one spent fuel pool contains more radiation than 900 nuclear bombs.


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ISFSI - List Of Orphaned Spent Fuel Pools In The USA, 2,800 Tons Of Stranded Spent Fuel With No Place To Go, 78,000 Tons Total
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2014/12/isfsi-list-of-orphaned-spent-fuel-pools.html

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