Inside Nuclear Reactors
AP
Don't Fall In
A technician at Germany's Kruemmel plant measures the temperature of a cooling pool filled with spent nuclear rods, July 2009. It is pools very much like this that have gone dry at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, causing so much danger and so many headaches.
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