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... Please use the EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 9 events in spent fuel pools that could result in propagating zirconium cladding fires. The committee judges that there are at least two such measures that should be implemented promptly: • Reconfiguring of fuel in the pools so that high decay-heat fuel assemblies are surrounded by low decay heat assemblies.
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