[ RadSafe ] REGIONAL RISKS in America’s Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods and Storage Pools

[Roger Helbig]

Are the risks really as grave as the writer asserts?  This looks like
planned death knell of nuclear power.  Source is ratical.org an
anti-nuclear group.  Spent fuel pools are the new bogeyman.

Roger Helbig



REGIONAL RISKS in America’s Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods and Storage Pools

Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods and Storage Pools: A Deadly and Unnecessary
Risk in the United States. Based on an Institute for Policy Studies
report by Robert Alvarez entitled “Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools in the
U.S.: Reducing the Deadly Risks of Storage.”

".......New York. If a spent fuel fire were to happen at one of the
two Indian Point nuclear reactors located 25 miles from New York City,
it could result in as many as 5,600 cancer deaths and $461 billion in
damages. Indian Point spent fuel storage has about three times more
radioactivity than the combined total in the spent fuel pools at the
four troubled Fukushima reactors.

 Los Angeles. The spent fuel at Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors have
nearly 2.7 times more radioactivity than the combined total in the
spent fuel pools at the four troubled Fukushima reactors.

Miami. Turkey Point reactors 65 miles from Miami have 2.5 times more
radioactivity than the combined total in the spent fuel pools at the
four troubled Fukushima reactors.

Dallas. The Comanche Peak nuclear station 60 miles southwest of Dallas
has spent fuel that contains about 2.3 times more radioactivity than
the combined total in the spent fuel pools at the four troubled
Fukushima reactors.

Atlanta. The Vogtle nuclear reactors near Augusta are 147 miles
northeast of Atlanta. These reactors have generated 2.5 times more
radioactivity than the combined total in the spent fuel pools at the
four troubled Fukushima reactors.
https://ratical.org/radiation/NuclearExtinction/IPS-RA-ReportFactSheet.pdf

http://nuclear-news.net/2016/07/23/regional-risks-in-americas-spent-nuclear-fuel-rods-and-storage-pools/