Whilereactor4wasshut downat the time the earthquake occurred, thereis concernthereand at the other reactors about the poolscontaining used or spent uranium fuelrods.
If these tests are successful, Khazaneh said, "then the next tests, with fuel rods containing enriched uranium, will take place near the end of 2009, " ISNA reported.
The authority has also proposed moving other material called "exotics", which includes fuelcontaining highly-enriched uranium, from Dounreay to Sellafield at a later date.
What they failed to appreciate, and what the company failed to tell them, was that a fast-breeder uses fuel that has a 19% concentration of the fissile isotope of uranium, 235U. Ordinary nuclear reactors use fuelcontaining around 3% of the fissile isotope.