Whole issue January/February 2002

U NTIL RECENTLY, CONCERNS ABOUT ATTACKS on commercial nuclear power plants fo- cused mainly on the vulnerability of reac- tor containment buildings. But nuclear power plants may have a weaker link—spent fuel ponds. “Reactors are inside steel vessels sur- rounded by heavy structures and containment buildings,” says Gordon Thompson, senior sci- entist at the Institute for Resource and Security Studi

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PDF.先に紹介した核廃棄物の専門家、ロバート・アルバレズさんが「原子科学者紀要」という英文雑誌に投稿した、使用積み核燃料の危険性を解説した記事。冷却水がなくなったら燃料が燃え出す、と2002年に指摘している。