The paper fails to mention is that the fuel rods are approximately 12-feet long.
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Reprocessing the remaining spent fuel rods at Yongbyon would give it one more bomb.
The last two run the gamut from mining ore to building reactors to making fuel rods.
The reactor's fuel rods were damaged, but the vessels in which they were contained were intact.
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Is it still your assessment that that cooling pond with the spent fuel rods is now empty?
Cooling problems have resulted in damage to radioactive fuel rods, hydrogen gas explosions, fires and radiation releases.
And we knew where the fuel rods were, and we knew the limits on their nuclear power.
However, one of its permanently-closed reactors on Long Island Sound did, and spent fuel rods remain on site.
Iran tested its first nuclear power plant on Wednesday at the Bushehr nuclear power plant using "dummy" fuel rods.
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The Japanese government said Monday that the fuel rods in one reactor have fused together in a partial meltdown.
In the test at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, "dummy" fuel rods were used, so no nuclear reaction began.
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What is more, Dr Filippone's results suggest that the spent fuel rods will continue to generate energy for 10-14 years.
Iran also reported this month that it had begun installing domestically made nuclear fuel rods into the Tehran research reactor.
Subsequently, France would convert the uranium into fuel rods for use in a reactor in Tehran that produces medical isotopes.
Hydrogen is building up because, due to low levels of cooling water, fuel rods are partially exposed, causing them to overheat.
But the dry casks holding spent fuel rods across the United States have not evolved along with their increasingly radioactive contents.
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That system requires tons of water to be pumped into the reactors every day to keep the fuel rods' temperatures down.
Does Iran expect to get the 20% enriched fuel rods from another source, while its own uranium is under Turkish guard?
Apart from America, which supplied the Tehran reactor in the 1960s, only France and Argentina can make the right fuel rods.
Modularity, potentially, can also reduce the possibility of runaway accidents because the fuel rods tend to be somewhat isolated from each other.
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Five workers at the plant were sacked after it was discovered manual checks on fuel rods had been faked to save time.
Without that water, the fuel rods in the reactor begin to melt.
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In the week following the tsunami, it became clear that the pond was running dry, meaning that fuel rods would have heated up.
That could have led to a loss of water and eventually to the exposure of the spent fuel rods to air, releasing radiation.
But experts say the overheated fuel rods are likely to have suffered extensive damage, and there is a complication for seemingly every advance.
Tepco fears some of the fuel rods may become exposed if the water in their storage pools is allowed to boil down too low.
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An alarm at reactor number three earlier revealed the system had stopped at one of the pools containing spent, but highly radioactive, fuel rods.
Later, North Korea said it had reprocessed 8, 000 nuclear-fuel rods that had been in storage since 1994 yielding enough plutonium for up to six bombs.
Which allows them to extract plutonium from the fuel rods used in the light water reactor, the second one that was finished in 1998.
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