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The spent fuel pools at the Fukushima site contain more long term radioactive material than the actual reactors. Some pools are now losing water and are exposed to the sky due to explosions following the earthquake and tsunami.
Japan’s storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel contain more longterm radioactive material than the internal reactor. Robert Alvarez of the Institute for Policy Studies tells host Bruce Gellerman that in the U.S., spent fuel pools contain four times more radioactive material than they were designed to hold.