The suit asks the NRC to order immediate security changes at nuclear plants, including deploying anti-missile weapons and posting armed guards outside spent fuel storage areas that have lesser security.
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During the dismantling process, spent fuel will be transferred from the spent fuel pool into dry casks and placed into a newly constructed Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation ( ISFSI ).
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One of the whistle-blowers, Randy Robarge, who was fired from a nuclear plant job and has tried to highlight possible security weaknesses surrounding spent fuel storage areas, joined in the petition.
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Another project is underway with Holtec International ( again of the USA ) to build a dry spent fuel storage facility at the 1986-accident-infamous Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ( RBMK-1000 reactors ).
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In 1997, in the 20 countries which account for most of the world's nuclear power generation, spent fuel storage capacity at the reactors was 148, 000 tonnes, with 59 % of this utilized.
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Some reactors already are running out of space in their spent fuel storage pools, and others no longer sell power but cannot be decommissioned because there is no place for the spent fuel.
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Exelon Corporation bought it for a more modest price of $ 40 million, with the purchase including the fuel in the reactor vessel and responsibility of all the radioactive waste in the spent fuel storage pool.
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The NRC also rejected a petition filed by the NRDC that had requested that Table S-3 include uncertainties, or that the nuclear plant licensing proceedings be allowed to consider uncertainties in emissions from spent fuel storage.
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In the event of a disaster, " the fate of all services with damaged spent nuclear fuel aboard . . . and the overcrowded Shkotovo site for spent fuel storage are of particular concern, " he said.
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The lab's primary research center, its High Flux Beam Reactor, which produces streams of neutrons for research projects, has been closed for more than a year because of leaks of radioactive material from its spent fuel storage tank.
