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To: Les H who wrote (12740)	3/18/2011 11:27:51 PM
From: Smiling Bob	Respond to of 119360

Nice... --- "The best thing to do is use as much of the Pacific Ocean as possible," he said.

To: Les H who wrote (12740)	3/19/2011 12:20:14 AM
From: Broken_Clock	4 Recommendations Respond to of 119360

More scary than interesting IMO. Pools in 5 & 6 are heating more and more each day.... ++++++++ Alvarez said the storage pools, elevated several stories above ground and not in a containment dome like the nuclear reactors themselves, have the potential of putting "significant amounts of cesium 137," a byproduct of nuclear fission, into the open air. Cancer-causing Cesium 137, he added, "is the really bad actor in this" with its ability to emit penetrating radiation over long periods. Of 104 nuclear reactors in the United States, Alvarez said, 34 are of the same design -- open-air, elevated storage pools -- as the Fukushima plant. MORE SPENT FUEL IN U.S. POOLS But the U.S. pools are storing much more spent fuel than the ones in Fukushima and "are currently holding, on the average, four times more than their design intended," he said. That's because the United States has been unable to settle on long-term sites for storing waste from nuclear power plants.