| 11. | The suspicion was that one of the fuel rod assemblies was leaking.
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| 12. | The 5-megawatt reactor that reportedly was restarted uses 8, 000 fuel rods.
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| 13. | The fuel rods are long, with of that being the active length.
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| 14. | It has been stockpiled for weapons and for nuclear fuel rods.
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| 15. | The first step is to dissolve a fuel rod in acid.
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| 16. | Merkel banned transport of highly contaminated nuclear waste, such as spent fuel rods.
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| 17. | The reactor " s fuel rods are currently locked and sealed.
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| 18. | Fresh fuel rods, instead, could be loaded into a reactor to produce electricity.
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| 19. | All fuel rods are stored temporarily at the nation's 103 active nuclear plants.
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| 20. | The encased fuel rods are supposed to be eventually removed from North Korea.
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