That compares with a level of just 0.01 becquerels or less for normal spent-fuel pools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan Orders Utility to Pay Evacuees] Reference

The Institute for Policy Studies says a spent-fuel fire could cost hundreds of billions of dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Could Be Worse Than The Gulf Spill?] Reference

Water poured in by the military, firefighters and plant workers to cool the cores and spent-fuel ponds, however, collected in the plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan stops radioactive water leak into ocean] Reference

The U.S. spent-fuel team returned to the DPRK in October 2000 to continue clean-up and canning at Yongbyon, and to begin looking at long-term maintenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Of Letter From The President On Proliferation Of Weapons] Reference

The Fukushima Daiichi facility lost power needed to cool its operational reactors and pools of spent-fuel rods after a magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami on March 11.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tepco Plans Compensation Payments] Reference

The NRC, he said, believes there was significant fuel damage in three reactors and four spent-fuel pools, "but we don't believe at this point in time that that core has left the vessel.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuclear Agency Tests Pennsylvania Plant] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan Discloses Data on Radioactive Water Release] Reference

Officials say it may be months before the complex reaches a condition in which the reactors and spent-fuel rods no longer emit harmful radiation—and potentially years before they can be properly disposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tepco Plans Compensation Payments] Reference

The document, reported Tuesday in the New York Times and made public Wednesday, said a hydrogen explosion in the spent-fuel cooling pool resulted in particles of nuclear fuel being thrown up to a mile from the facility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan to Head Off Hydrogen Blast] Reference

Well, perhaps one good thing to come from Reid losing and thus leaving the Senate is that the spent-fuel storage facility at Yucca Mountain Repository will someday actually open and thus produce at least some high-wage jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » GOP Senate Candidates Takes on Scourge of Imitation People] Reference

While Mr. Kan's side cites the dispatch of Tokyo firefighters as an example of the new system in action, his critics point to an earlier episode in which a police riot-control truck failed to tame overheating spent-fuel pools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kan Cuts Out Bureaucrats] Reference

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in a March 26 assessment of the plant that was made public this week, said a hydrogen explosion in a spent-fuel cooling pool threw particles of nuclear fuel up to a mile from the complex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan Weighs Wider Evacuation Zone] Reference

With the restoration of power, plant operators were able to keep their reactors and spent-fuel pools from overheating, avoiding a replay of the disaster that befell the Fukushima Daiichi complex after the devastating March 11 quake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japanese Plants' Power Is Restored] Reference

Point Beach experienced a brief fire during a spent-fuel transfer attempt in 1996.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

Many conservatives on Capitol Hill favor the French "solution": spent-fuel reprocessing.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The pieces may be from rods in the spent-fuel pools that were flung out by hydrogen explosions.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The IAEA wanted to do chemical diagnostic assays of those spent-fuel elements, and the Koreans refused.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyAntiwar.org] Reference

The waste could either be submerged in spent-fuel pools or in steel and concrete casks for longer onsite storage.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The roofs of three buildings were damaged in blasts as water inside reactor cores and spent-fuel ponds boiled away.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com -- Top News] Reference

Hence the twin ideas of a multinational or international fuel bank and cradle-to-grave fuel leasing (including spent-fuel take back).    From Wordnik.com.  [Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists] Reference

Mr. Kraft also says the uncertainty over spent-fuel disposal would have "no effect at all" on efforts to expand nuclear power generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] Reference

The separate spent-fuel storage facility is to hold the waste fuel from the plant's other reactors, which were phased out of service after the blast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

To start with, the federal government must honor its obligation to complete a spent-fuel storage site at Yucca Mountain or offer a viable alternative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

The international community is debating various proposals for placing uranium enrichment and spent-fuel reprocessing capabilities under international control.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines] Reference

But Mr. Jaczko said Tuesday that the explosions in the secondary containments might have been caused by hydrogen created in the spent-fuel pools within those containments.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Global Home] Reference

North Korea was not accurately "declaring" the amount of plutonium which could be recovered from the spent-fuel elements being subjected to IAEA Safeguards for the first time.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyAntiwar.org] Reference

Crews were still using temporary pumps for reactor cooling yesterday, and used a cement-pumping truck to spray water into a damaged spent-fuel pool, Tepco said in a statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com -- Top News] Reference

The dwindling storage space in the spent-fuel pool inside the Kewaunee plant was among the factors that led Wisconsin utilities to sell the reactor to Dominion several years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

The tsunami knocked out backup generators and cooling systems at the station, leading to explosions and radiation leaks as water in the reactors and spent-fuel ponds boiled away.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com -- Top News] Reference

Instead, the industry has relied on humans even for its most dangerous routine work, such as transferring waste and scrubbing radiation from spent-fuel pools and reactor buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

These plants are potential weapons of mass destruction if explosions or fires disable the complex array of pipes and pumps needed to cool nuclear reactor fuel and spent-fuel cooling water.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The administration was right to focus GNEP on spent-fuel issues initially since an offer to take back spent fuel could dissuade other countries from engaging in enrichment and reprocessing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists] Reference

Long-term regular cooling of the reactors has not been re-established, nor has a regular way of delivering water to the spent-fuel pools, he told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Global Home] Reference

New Delhi had hoped that critical details relating to the implementation of the nuclear accord would be wrapped up by the time Singh arrived in Washington, particularly a spent-fuel reprocessing agreement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Pasha wanted me to look into the spent-fuel situation. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wolves Eat Dogs]

Likewise for my spent-fuel pond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gregg Hurwitz: What Made Von Brunn Do It?] Reference

But rather he has targeted the spent-fuel ponds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference