26. The volume of spent fuel isn't the same thing as the "volume of radioactivity"
That was my point. You can put a whole mess of ten-year-old fuel in a pool and there still isn't much radioactivity or heat. So the problems at Fukushima would not be exacerbated by a bunch of ten-year-old fuel in a pool
In fact... they HAVE such a pool and it hasn't been an issue.
The stuff that IS in the pools at the tops of those reactors is much "fresher" fuel... and it couldn't be moved to long-term underground storage if they wanted to.
So as I said, a long term repository wouldn't have helped Fukushima even if ALL of the fuel that could have been taken offsite was removed.
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