1.   The entire operation will use remote devices in the boron-rich water that keeps the reactor fuel from overheating.

2.   The most urgent task, the report says, is to remove spent reactor fuel and store it in sealed containers on land.

3.   Anti-nuclear activists in the U.S. say the fire could add to controversy in the U.S. over the planned use of plutonium as reactor fuel.

4.   A commercial lobby is developing for turning plutonium into reactor fuel rather than encasing it in glass.

5.   A second will mix the plutonium oxide with oxides of uranium and turn that into ceramic form, the common form for commercial reactor fuel.

6.   But even Nikitin said the radiation would come from the cooling water, not the reactor fuel.

7.   Converting the metal plutonium in weapons into the ceramic form used in reactor fuel requires baking it at high temperatures, and that turns the gallium into a gas.

8.   Fifty tons of uranium in that total is scheduled for transfer to U.S. Enrichment for conversion into reactor fuel.

9.   Highly enriched uranium can be rendered relatively harmless by simply blending it with nonexplosive natural uranium for use as reactor fuel.

10.   In fact, enriched uranium has economic value as reactor fuel, whereas converting plutonium appears to be a money-losing proposition.