NC WARN Nuclear Waste

Shearon Harris has the nation's largest "spent"
fuel pools.

Safer Storage of Nuclear Waste

How Nuclear Waste Should be stored

Diagram courtesy Dr. Gordon Thompson

Alternative hardened on-site storage method

An alternative hardened on-site storage method - even safer and cheaper.

Diagram by NC WARN

Nuclear Waste

Along with the well-known lack of any solution for disposing of “spent” fuel rods and “low-level” radioactive waste, a more immediate concern is that U.S. nuclear plants are storing thousands of tons of spent fuel in an extremely dangerous manner: high-density cooling pools (right)

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