No, this arrangement is consistent with what the industry does generally. The difference between North America and the rest of the world is that other parts of the world take their spent fuel and recycle it. We in North America choose not to recycle fuel, so we store it.
The reason we don't recycle goes back to the Cold War in the mid-1960s, when the U.S. decided they did not want to recycle spent fuel. From that point on, North America has been in a storage-only situation. Once we got into that situation, the fuel pools were not sized to keep fuel forever, so the dry fuel storage is the obvious next step, to take them from the fuel pool and store them in these concrete casks. That's an industry practice, and it's happening across North America.