21.   Japan insists that its breeder program is meant to produce fuel for nuclear reactors, not bombs.

22.   The Clinton administration says it fears that the reactors will produce fuel for bombs.

23.   The gains came as U.S. refiners operated at close to record rates, producing the fuels faster than motorists and homeowners could consume them.

24.   The Shell-Texaco venture will produce fuel at eight refineries.

25.   The subsidy cuts have spurred Sasol to examine its unit that produces synthetic fuel to minimize the expected loss.

26.   Their chemists, however, have since managed to produce such fuels without disturbing profits.

27.   To produce its fuel, Lorpex uses solid oxide electrolysis.

28.   Yet the fields have yet to produce fuel, and no one knows for certain how much is there.

29.   At issue are negotiations over replacement light-water reactors to substitute for the stilled five-megawatt graphite reactor suspected of producing fuel for nuclear weapons.

30.   Bangladesh governments have long been opposed to the export of its natural gas, even though it allowed foreign oil companies to explore and produce the fuel.