31.   A hearing about the dangers of spent fuel is planned for the Shearon Harris plant in North Carolina.

32.   According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the North has kept its pledge not to reprocess spent fuel.

33.   Additionally, Mikhailov did not say whether Moscow has abandoned its earlier plan to reprocess the spent fuel and return the nuclear waste to Georgia.

34.   But now that Khazakstan is an independent country, the Russians have refused to transport the spent fuel to Russia.

35.   But neither Maine Yankee nor any other power reactor can really be fully decommissioned now because there is no place to put spent fuel.

36.   But some experts have said terrorists might try to make a so-called radiological bomb by combining conventional explosives with radioactive material like spent nuclear fuel.

37.   But virgin uranium turned out to be cheaper, and President Jimmy Carter, concerned that the spent fuel could be turned into nuclear weapons, banned the process.

38.   By far, the greatest likelihood of an accident, sabotage or terrorist attack would be when spent fuel is in motion.

39.   Carnahan sponsored legislation this year to require a study of how the Energy Department selected routes to transport the spent nuclear fuel.

40.   By the spring of last year, U.S. officials decided to ask Russia to accept all of the spent fuel and enriched uranium.