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  • As the most urgent dangers have receded, operators have begun to face the issue of how to deal with the water, estimated at 50,000 to 60,000 tons, or enough to fill 20 to 24 olympic-sized swimming pools.

    Kan Aide Details Nuclear Crisis Mari Iwata 2011

  • So too do the twenty tidal pools in Sydney Harbour- a legacy of pools built in 100 harbourside locations between the mid 19th century and mid twentieth century - when Councils built freshwater olympic-sized pools.

    Rosa Barba Prize 2: The Ocean Pools of Madeira (and Sydney) 2008

  • Currently, all of the waste made in thirty years of nuclear power in Ontario can fit (and is currently housed in) three olympic-sized swimming pools.

    800-pound gorilla 2005

  • Somebody tell me which CPS school has an olympic-sized swimming pool?

    Archive 2005-06-01 Nathaniel Livingston 2005

  • Somebody tell me which CPS school has an olympic-sized swimming pool?

    Funding of CPS Nathaniel Livingston 2005

  • Building the olympic-sized pool is the first phase of the project.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • If you took one tennis ball from an olympic-sized pool filled with them, you would achieve the same result.

    ChronWatch - Articles Alan Caruba 2010

  • If you took one tennis ball from an olympic-sized pool filled with them, you would achieve the same result.

    ChronWatch - Articles Alan Caruba 2010

  • There's an olympic-sized swimming pool, and not much else.

    Something Awful ctstalker@somethingawful.com (Dennis "Corin Tucker 2010

  • OCC officials say they do hope to have an agreement 'in the near future' to build a new olympic-sized pool, possibly in partnership with the YMCA.

    NBC3 - Local News Laura Hand 2010

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