| 11. | No other nation is officially known to be using commercial reactors to make bomb materials.
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| 12. | The need for vigilance is compounded by the aging of the nation's 107 commercial reactors.
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| 13. | The first commercial reactors are expected in 2030.
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| 14. | The World Nuclear Association lists the BN-1200 as a commercial reactor, in contrast to its predecessors.
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| 15. | There are 103 commercial reactors now operating; those in service the longest began operation in 1969.
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| 16. | Commercial reactors provide more than a fifth of the electricity consumed by homeowners and businesses each year.
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| 17. | Spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors currently is being stored in temporary facilities at the reactor sites.
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| 18. | Another would rely on commercial reactors to produce tritium instead of calling for a new government plant.
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| 19. | Yanase said the ministry wasn't even considering directly disposing of nuclear waste from commercial reactors a decade ago.
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| 20. | The RBMK is an early Generation II reactor and the oldest commercial reactor design still in wide operation.
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