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Canceled and delayed plans for reprocessing, and delays in identifying central-storage and burial sites for spent fuel have resulted in nuclear utilities in a number of countries dense-racking their spent-fuel pools as the least costly way to increase onsite spent-fuel storage capacity. As discussed in Chap. 5, dense-racking of spent-fuel pools has created the possibility for nuclear accidents 100 times worse than Fukushima.
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von Hippel, F., Takubo, M., Kang, J. (2019). Early Dry-Cask Storage: A Safer Alternative to Dense-Packed Pools and Reprocessing. In: Plutonium. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9901-5_6
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