| 41. | That still leaves the problem of the spent fuel rods.
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| 42. | Fuel rods cover the uranium pellets that power nuclear plants.
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| 43. | Parallel fuel rod development took place off-site at Rocky Flats.
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| 44. | Humboldt Bay's storage pool contains about 15, 000 fuel rods.
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| 45. | The reactor is equipped with a fuel rod leak detector.
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| 46. | Unlike Reactor 4, their fuel rods remained in the reactor.
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| 47. | :It is probably more economical to recycle the fuel rods.
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| 48. | The lab can be used to extract weapons grade plutonium from spent fuel rods.
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| 49. | Reconstituted fuel rods could, theoretically, be used to make plutonium.
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| 50. | The 5-megawatt reactor reportedly restarted uses 8, 000 fuel rods.
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