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9-13 When a spent fuel rod is removed from a reactor core, it is stored in an on-site storage pool of water so that the most intense, short-lived radioactive fission products decay, and the rod is safe for further handling and possible shipment to a reprocessing plant

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9-13 When a spent fuel rod is removed from a reactor core, it is stored in an on-site storage pool of water so that the most intense, short-lived radioactive fission products decay, and the rod is safe for further handling and possible shipment to a reprocessing plant. Consider for simplicity only the radioisotope xenon- 133 which B decays into a stable isotope with a half-life of 5.27 days. If a 30-kg fuel rod contains 0.1 percent by mass of Xe's when removed from the core, what is the minimum time it should be stored in the pool so that the activity may not exceed 300 mci?