Boiling the Abyss: The Logistics of Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools

When a nuclear reactor is refueled, the old uranium rods are no longer efficient enough to generate commercial power, but they are still intensely radioactive and generating massive amounts of "e;decay heat."e; You cannot simply throw them in a warehouse. They must be aggressively and continuously cooled for decades. The solution is the Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool. This highly technical engineering ...