The nuclear waste storage information below is just a small piece of what is really happening
Spent Nuclear Fuel Fact Sheet (at San Onofre website)
Cask inventory U.S.: U.S Dry Cask Inventory, sorted by state (2 pages)
Inventory of U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel Containers
- Over 3000 nuclear fuel waste dry storage containers are located nationwide.
- Most of these are unsafe thin-wall canisters.
- Hundreds more added every year.
- U.S Dry Cask Inventory, sorted by state (2 pages)
Urgent action is needed to replace unsafe thin-wall nuclear waste canisters with proven thick-wall casks.
Canisters cannot be inspected or repaired admits NRC and Holtec canister vendor
NRC Commissioner David A. Wright asked NRC engineer Christian Araguas the status of ability to inspect and repair canister cracks. Araguas admitted they have no ability to inspect canisters for cracks. They have no ability to “detect the flaws” or “understand and characterize the flaws”. He did not respond to Commissioner’s question regarding repair technology. Transcript of NRC Commissioners October 11, 2018 meeting: Strategic Programmatic Overview of the decommissioning and Low-Level Waste and Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Business Lines (ML18295A698) (page 104 and 105). NRC Commissioner David Wright video.
Holtec President Kris Singh admits even a microscopic through-wall crack will release millions of curies of radionuclides into the environment and it’s not feasible to repair cracks even if you could find them. Kris Singh video Transcript of Singh video