The U.S. nuclear industry must do more to ensure the safety of spent fuel pools during extreme events and severe accidents to avoid another nuclear disaster similar to what happened in Japan in 2011, ...

have more severe consequences. Severe damage of the pool wall could potentially result from several types of terrorist attacks, for instance: Attacks with large civilian aircraft, Attacks with ...

Several panel members urged Entergy to work toward moving more of its spent nuclear fuel out of the spent fuel pool and into so-called dry cask storage, which is widely viewed as safer and less prone ...