nuclear-news

Updated 29 April 2015

Holtec Dry Casks of spent nuclear fuel sweltering on pavement in the Mississippi sun, on the river, with ultra-high humidity. The US NRC allows Holtec and others to pretend that the temperature is only 100F (38C).

“Impact of Variation in Environmental Conditions on the Thermal Performance of Dry Storage Casks”, NUREG, US NRC comment deadline MAY 4th-Nuclear Waste Dry Cask Storage Temperature, etc. http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=NRC-2014-0273-0001 ID: NRC-2014-0273-0001

Dry Casks at Diablo Canyon in California. NRC visit was 26 December, when the sun is its weakest

The summary of this NUREG starts off sounding reasonable in spots, before quickly degenerating to the point that it would be fair to wonder if anything in this document can be trusted. It is important to note that at least two very well paid bureaucrats wrote this and probably had months to work on it full time, and maybe years. Maybe…