What you’re looking at is a carefully designed storage yard filled with enormous concrete cylinders, each containing spent nuclear fuel. These containers, called dry casks, are used once nuclear fuel has cooled sufficiently in a reactor’s spent fuel pool, allowing it to be moved safely outdoors. The construction of each cask is meticulous: layers of thick concrete and steel … [Read more...] about This Is What 20 Years of Spent Nuclear Fuel from a Reactor Really Looks Like

