41.   Cogema recycles not only French spent fuel but that of other countries, and at a handsome profit.

42.   Costs there remained substantial for years after the shutdown because of security and maintenance of the systems needed to tend to the spent fuel.

43.   DOE officials said spent fuel and other waste would be transported in specially designed, lead-lined containers that can withstand fire and collisions.

44.   During the Soviet era, Georgia shipped its spent fuel to the Russian nuclear complex at Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains.

45.   Each spent fuel assembly is made up of pencil-thick metal rods filled with eraser-sized pellets of waste.

46.   During the Clinton administration, Washington encouraged Russia to remove a ban on importing spent fuels.

47.   During the Soviet era, Georgia periodically sent its spent fuel to a Russian nuclear center at Chelyabinsk in the Ural mountains of Siberia.

48.   For two years, international inspectors verify, Pyongyang has kept its pledge not to reprocess spent nuclear fuel and extract plutonium for use in bombs.

49.   France currently operates a half-dozen commercial reactors with plutonium recycled from spent nuclear fuel.

50.   Gephardt said the solution is the European way of storing spent fuel at the site where it has been produced.