20 May 2004 - Avila Beach, California - A worker clad in protective clothing, including gloves to protect himself from the highly radioactive water, preforms maintenance work on one of the 440,000-gallon pools holding the nuclear reactor's spent fuel assemblies. Critics argue that the spent fuel pools are an ideal target to terrorists that could use an attack to drain the pool and cause the spent fuel to ignite, resulting in long-term radioactive contamination of California's central coast....
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20 May 2004 - Avila Beach, California - A worker clad in protective clothing, including gloves to protect himself from the highly radioactive water, preforms maintenance work on one of the 440,000-gallon pools holding the nuclear reactor's spent fuel assemblies. Critics argue that the spent fuel pools are an ideal target to terrorists that could use an attack to drain the pool and cause the spent fuel to ignite, resulting in long-term radioactive contamination of California's central coast. Plant operators say the depth of the pools along with the pool's steel and concrete lining makes the pools nearly invincible. (© 2004 Michael A. Mariant)
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