A nuclear fuel pool is a pool full of special water to stop a chain reaction from spontaneously happening where used reactor cores are stored for many years to so called cool down They are hot because they are still splitting the atoms and those atoms are released all day every day into the air creating deadly invisible plumes .
Each nuclear reactor has 2 fuel pools where they store multiple reactor cores due to a lack of repository’s for such waste they are stored there permanently . Each one of those reactor cores is still splitting the same amount of massive atoms as it normally would to power a million homes and will continue to do so for 100s of 1000s of years
Each fuel pool Is stuffed with many reactor cores constantly splitting atoms , you can put 2 million man made atoms on the head of a pin but you can not see it . So how many would it take to boil a cup of water is a absurd number , imagine how many it takes to boil water to power a million homes and businesses all day each day it is still doing that . Each liter of water in those fuel pools will contain Trillions of man made harmful atomic atoms that remain deadly for thousands of years and its released each day .
There is about 120,000 liters of nuclear waste per day of evaporation from each and every fuel pool full of reactor cores that are still splitting the atoms . 120,000 Liters Is equal To 120 tons of radioactive water
With each liter easily capable of having billions of long lived man made atoms harmful to everything with replicating cells released into the environment . There is a 1000 plus fuel pools world wide doing the same thing , releasing massive plumes of radioactive isotopes each day for decades
Each day world wide just from fuel pools at nuclear power plants there is a 120,000 Plus Tons of nuclear waste aka dirty bombs evaporated into the air , liberating those isotopes into the biosphere that pulse energy almost at the speed of light each second every second for millions of years . The plumes cover the entire plant pulsing energy every second and after decades of constant releases that is global warming on steroids . Gas Oil and coal emmision’s do not do that and they do not create plumes that cover the planet but nuclear does .
Each years world wide there is 44 million tons of fuel pools of highly radioactive water boiled off into the environment releasing those isotopes to harm and kill all species . To Put it into perspective if you put one ton of this in the back of a 1 ton 44 million pickup truck and then line each pickup truck bumper to bumper there would be a traffic jam 7 rows wide of 1 ton trucks bumper to bumper wrapped around the entire planet .
If you take 40 years of this then there would be a row of traffic bumper to bumper 280 trucks wide or 1700 feet wide of these 1 ton dirty bombs . But you can not because the radiation was released in to the air to hunt down and kill all species world wide each day .
Each day another deadly plume from a 1000s nuclear power plants reactor cores fuel pools scattered around the world is created and released to cause endless harm for millions of years . Every day we let this happen is another death sentence for all species . You can pretend this is not happening and not deadly but that is all you are doing is pretending .
Dana Durnford Oct 14 2022