| 21. | The spent fuel rods contained enough plutonium for 10 nuclear warheads, officials said.
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| 22. | The Soviets mined both civil and military fuel rods and mixed the waste.
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| 23. | These range from X-ray machines to industrial sources to missing nuclear fuel rods.
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| 24. | The highly radioactive spent fuel rods will be sent to France for reprocessing.
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| 25. | You lose enough coolant, you melt the radioactive fuel rods in the core.
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| 26. | Mixed-oxide fuel is made by reprocessing spent uranium fuel rods from nuclear plants.
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| 27. | Cogema owns uranium mines, provides uranium enrichment and recycles spent nuclear fuel rods.
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| 28. | Each fuel rod cluster was supported by an inconel tie rod.
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| 29. | But the fuel rods continued to heat, and shot past 1, 000 degrees.
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| 30. | The first shipment involves about 360 fuel rods from South Korea.
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