Japan Nuclear Meltdown: Time for a Fix for Indian Point's Spent Fuel Rods
Forget closing nuclear plants in the wake of the Japan disaster. That won't solve the biggest problem—spent fuel rods, which caused the most damage at Fukushima. Jonathan Alter on the dry casking technology that might help at a reactor outside New York City.
This picture taken on August 21, 2010 shows a MOX fuel storage pool inside the Tokyo Electric Power CO's (TEPCO) Fukushima No.1 plant third reactor building at Okuma town, Futaba district in Fukushima prefecture with the reactor situated behind the pool.
