61.   It estimated that an unprotected person standing within three feet of unshielded spent nuclear fuel would receive a lethal dose of radiation within two minutes.

62.   It lags these nations because they poured time and money into research on enriching uranium and reprocessing spent fuel to extract plutonium as part of their atomic weapons programs.

63.   It says the conclusion was altered because the draft underestimated the cost of treating spent fuel before it was stored.

64.   It will also halt construction of two larger reactors capable of expanding its output of spent fuel and seal its facility for reprocessing that fuel.

65.   Japan wants Britain to take back nuclear fuel shipped with such documents and Germany suspended new shipments of spent fuel.

66.   Kobe already produces materials used to make casks for storing spent nuclear fuel.

67.   Last June three trucks carrying spent nuclear fuel from Germany passed through St. Louis and Kansas City on their way to a federal laboratory in Idaho.

68.   Last month the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered extra security measures to protect spent fuel stored at U.S. nuclear power plants that are being decommissioned.

69.   Low-level waste is relatively safe, when compared to the high-level radioactivity of liquid, solid and chemical waste such as spent nuclear fuel.

70.   Many of the dangerous radioactive elements in spent nuclear fuel decay away within weeks and months.