> NRC has long mulled whether to compel the nuclear industry to move most of the cooled spent fuel now held in densely packed pools to concrete containers called dry casks. Such a move would reduce the consequences and likelihood of a spent fuel pool fire. As recently as 2013, NRC concluded that the projected benefits do not justify the roughly $4 billion cost of a wholesale transfer. But the national academies's study concludes that the benefits of expedited transfer to dry casks are fivefold greater than NRC has calculated.

Utter insanity.

This is why I file nuclear power under "nice things" - and we can't have nice things.

That's only needed for a few years as they wind down. After that they can go into regular dry storage.

Good point so even if all the nuclear plants are decommissioned, it will still be a few more years until they are all passively ‘safe’.