Abstract: Disclosed is a spent fuel storage rack that exhibits high structural strength without unduly increasing the number of welds. The spent fuel storage rack having a plurality of storage cells for storing spent fuel assemblies includes a base plate, a plurality of partition plates having vertically-oriented comb-like slits formed at upper and lower parts thereof or at either the upper or lower part, the partition plates being stacked in multiple levels above the base plate, and a plurality of side plates which surround the peripheries of the plurality of partition plates stacked in multiple levels. The plurality of partition plates are adapted to form the plurality of storage cells in such a manner that a set of the partition plates is repeatedly stacked in the vertical direction while the upper slits formed in the partition plates at a relatively low position is engaged with the lower slits formed in the partition plates at a relatively high position.