Good luck to you Rolex.
This is just unbelivable.
This is a good article of the plant structure. I also found out that these plants even though holding together the storage of the spent rods where not placed in any containment like the core. Im just curious how much was ejected from the explosions. Not to mention the fact reactor 3 uses weapon grade plutonium also as a mox fuel. So the spent rods are really deadly. And these reactors have been operational for 40 years. Thats a lot of waste.
http://www.infowars.com/alert-fukushima-coverup-40-years-of-spent-nuclear-rods-blown-sky-high/
Anyway good luck Rolex, and stay safe.
Their design is similar to the plant I work at. The spent fuel pool is also in a containment structure, it's just not called the containment building because that is a specific term for the building housing the reactor. Most American plants are burning old Soviet weapons as well. We don't just dump them in there however, it is processed into fuel pellets. It is not explosive.
There is suprisingly little waste even after 40 years of operation. One pool holds all of our spent fuel, and we still have plenty of room for more. Fuel lasts for around 6 years in our supersized reactor.
The spent fuel is no more deadly than spent fuel that did not come from nuclear weapons.
The pool, looks a lot like a normal swimming pool, save for all the equipment used to contain the fuel and keep it cooled.
However, with enough damage, the cooling systems can fail and the fuel can heat up.
The anti-nuclear groups have for 40 years prevented the nuclear industries from safely disposing of our spent fuel, and now, in cases like Japan, the potential safety of humans can be blamed on those who thought they were doing good.
There are 104 reactors in the United States, every single one of them contains all the nuclear fuel they have spent, on premises. That's 104 reactor's worth of spent fuel just lying in a swimming pool inside ~100 locations, rather than one single highly secured safe site.
