By then, they estimate, nuclear plants will have generated another 40, 000 metric tons of spent fuel.
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Reprocessing the remaining spent fuel rods at Yongbyon would give it one more bomb.
The company mines uranium, makes nuclear fuel, designs and builds reactors and reprocesses spent fuel.
Would it make sense to embrace some sort of closed-fuel cycle, with limited reprocessing of spent fuel?
Is it still your assessment that that cooling pond with the spent fuel rods is now empty?
The agency is not adequately addressing deficiencies in its emergency evacuation planning and spent fuel storage standards.
However, one of its permanently-closed reactors on Long Island Sound did, and spent fuel rods remain on site.
Last month a power cut shut cooling systems for four spent fuel ponds.
In March, a power cut shut cooling systems for four spent fuel ponds.
North Korea has said that it will reactivate all of its nuclear facilities and go ahead with reprocessing spent fuel.
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What is more, Dr Filippone's results suggest that the spent fuel rods will continue to generate energy for 10-14 years.
Electricity is needed to keep the reactor cores covered with coolant and to keep safe temperatures in spent fuel pools.
But the dry casks holding spent fuel rods across the United States have not evolved along with their increasingly radioactive contents.
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That could be a problem if the time comes to transport spent fuel from reactor sites to a central storage facility.
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The conversations about where to store spent fuel and how communities would respond in the event of radiation leaks are healthy.
All of the rods from the fuel core were put into the spent fuel pool above the reactor at that time.
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There are plans afoot to recover spent fuel from other countries, too.
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The pools of water are typically about 40 feet deep, with at least 20 feet of water covering the spent fuel .
But the bottom line is, is that there clearly appears to be a challenge keeping that spent fuel filled with sufficient water.
That could have led to a loss of water and eventually to the exposure of the spent fuel rods to air, releasing radiation.
Scientists have studied and fees were paid to place the spent fuel in Yucca Mountain that is 90 miles outside of Las Vegas.
Where most attention has centred on reactors 1, 2 and 3, there is also concern about the spent fuel pond in reactor building 4.
In the past month, Fukushima nuclear plant has experienced two power outages that shut down some of its cooling systems for spent fuel ponds.
This indicated that the spent fuel remained stable and did not pose an immediate danger to the environment, news agency AFP quoted Tepco as saying.
Rats were also believed to have caused two power cuts in the last month, shutting down some of the plant's cooling systems for spent fuel pools.
Reactors that exploit nuclear fission (in which energy is generated by splitting uranium atoms) have produced thousands of tonnes of spent fuel and other radioactive by-products.
At the time before meltdowns and hydrogen explosions damaged spent fuel pools at Fukushima the U.S. appeared more open to recycling processes like those employed in France.
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Japan has a nuclear cooperation agreement with the U.S. dating back to the 1980s that allows Tokyo to reprocess the spent fuel from its nuclear reactors.
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