[jfoutz]

Yeah, maybe there's some other model, but there would be no reason for a Spent Fuel Pool [1] if you could handle the things.

There's also an interesting anecdote about spent fuel here [2]. You can get pretty close, if it's under water... but it gets very dangerous very fast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spent_fuel_pool [2] https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

[eru]

Spent fuel is dangerous to handle. That's why I specifically mentioned the unspent fuel.