Epidemic of radioactivity leaks from U.S. nuclear plants includes irradiated fuel pools

A new Beyond Nuclear fact sheet, prepared for use on Kevin Kamps' speaking tour of Japan, lays out multiple cases of radioactivity leakage from high-level radioactive waste storage pools at such places as Indian Point, New York, Salem 1, New Jersey, and Connecticut Yankee. The anti-nuclear movement in Japan is resisting MOX (mixed oxide uranium-plutonium), or "Pluthermal," fuel use in Japanese reactors, in part because there is no disposition pathway for irradiated MOX other than long-term pool storage, with its risks of leakage.