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The majority of the country's waste—about 50,000 metric tons—is stored in pools of water known as spent-fuel pools.

Problem of Where to Put Waste Besets Nuclear Industry Ben Casselman 2011

As part of that, five months ago Tepco relocated all the fuel rods—the heavy tubes that contain radioactive fuel pellets—from inside the reactor to what's called a spent-fuel pool, a concrete holding tank that is less robustly protected than the reactor itself.

Japan Plant Had Troubled History Rebecca Smith 2011

The majority of the country's waste—about 50,000 metric tons—is stored in pools of water known as spent-fuel pools.

Problem of Where to Put Waste Besets Nuclear Industry Ben Casselman 2011

The new blaze occurred following efforts to extinguish an earlier fire in the pool containing spent-fuel rods, which ignited after being exposed to air.

New Fukushima fear: Spent fuel at No. 4 might restart chain reaction 2011

The integrity of containment structures at units 1, 2 and 3 are "currently maintained," and the spent-fuel pools at units 3 and 4 are stabilizing, Mr. Borchardt said.

U.S. Says Japanese Nuclear Reactors Are Stable Tennille Tracy 2011

They also have been restoring water levels in the plant's spent-fuel pools.

Japanese jittery over shortages, food safety 2011

Reuters A sampling procedure conducted Tuesday on the spent-fuel pool at the No. 4 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in a handout photo released by Tepco.

Japan Discloses Data on Radioactive Water Release Mitsuru Obe 2011

In the U.S., only the most worn-out rods typically are removed and transferred to a spent-fuel pool for storage, where they can stay for decades.

Japan Plant Had Troubled History Rebecca Smith 2011

That compares with a level of just 0.01 becquerels or less for normal spent-fuel pools.

Japan Orders Utility to Pay Evacuees Mitsuru Obe 2011

A nuclear crisis involving spent-fuel pools at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant has focused renewed attention on the issue of spent nuclear fuel.

Senators Press Regulator on Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel Ryan Tracy 2011