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The spent uranium fuel rods are unsafe and are an existential threat. Until 1991 it was a common practice by the Europeans, USA, Russians and Japanese to disassembled the spent uranium fuel rod assemblies, and stored the depleted uranium pellets in steel barrels then dumped the barrels into the ocean.
“By 1991, the US had dropped more than 90,000 barrels and at least 190,000 cubic meters of radioactive waste in the North Atlantic and Pacific. Other countries including Belgium, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands also disposed of tons of radioactive waste in the North Atlantic in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.” (Schauenberg).
It is unclear the exact location or how much uranium are in the dry cask cells since the nuclear regulatory agencies are routinely supplying inconsistent data. The fuel assemblies could be stored in cooling pools or the majority of the spent fuel rods were dumped into the oceans since before 1991 the spent fuel rod uranium pellets where routinely dumped into the ocean. The uranium dumped into the ocean is temporarily safe but if the ocean water were to expose the uranium in the next 10 millions there would be the potential for a meltdown, and there is the problem of the spent fuel assemblies heating the ocean and causing climate change since heat rises to the surface of the ocean and effects the weather since heat (energy) cannot be destroyed. The 300,000 tons of spent fuel assemblies uranium will continue to heat the oceans equivalent to
300,000 tons / 75 tons = 4,000 reactors @ 10% capacity = 400 once-through reactors.........................................................86
The worlds spent fuel assemblies cooled using water = 400 once-through and 2,400 cooling tower nuclear power plants operating at full capacity which heating will last for more then 10 million years based on the 700 year half-life. The spent uranium fuel assemblies cooling pools are producing thermodynamics pollution that is dumped into the water source that flowing into the ocean at a rate twice that of all the current functioning nuclear power plants.