1. At that stage the inspector did not mention spent nuclear fuel. 2. American transport planes spirited a small supply of highly enriched uranium and spent fuel from the Caucasian nation of Georgia to Britain last month. 3. As an airline passenger, you may be sharing space with live animals, farm produce or spent nuclear fuel. 4. Federal law prohibits concentrated, high-level nuclear wastes and spent nuclear fuel from disposal in the WIPP. 5. The anti-nuclear tide may shift enough that the U.S. public one day will understand the value of the energy in spent fuel, Kraft notes. 6. The North pledged not to refuel the reactor for now, preventing more spent fuel from being generated. 7. When that fuel is spent, it would be disposed at a planned repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev. 8. After lengthy negotiations, Russia intends to remove a cache of highly enriched uranium and spent nuclear fuel from Georgia that are leftovers from the Soviet era. 9. All spent fuel and low-level waste would be shipped out. 10. Although India could have continued to run Tarapur for a while by reprocessing spent fuel, that probably would have angered the United States. |