Aside from the sheer inconvenience of having to call for assistance or hike to the nearest gas station (and hope they have a fuel container available), suddenly hitting empty can put a driver and passengers in peril.

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Yangon Division Chief Minister Myint Swe, who said a commission would fully investigate the fire, also told reporters late Tuesday that police discovered a container of diesel fuel underneath a staircase that he said had helped fuel the blaze.

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Used fuel that has been cooled in a spent fuel pool for at least five years can be put into a container called a cask and surrounded with inert gas, providing leak-tight containment, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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