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thecrumb ◴[] No.41840964[source]
I love the 'ideally' in the dry cask storage article...

"Ideally, the steel cylinder provides leak-tight containment of the spent fuel."

Also guessing that article is woefully out of date since it mentions:

"The NRC estimated that many of the nuclear power plants in the United States will be out of room in their spent fuel pools by 2015, most likely requiring the use of temporary storage of some kind"

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1. Moldoteck ◴[] No.41846457[source]
there aren't any records in history with problems with casks storing solid waste. Related to spent fuel: the solution should be storage facility like in sweden + purex like in France (or even better - fast reactors and pyroprocessing)