1.   Today, this lorry load of spent nuclear rods represents history in the making again.

2.   But a consensus is emerging that long-term storage at the site would be safer than shipping spent rods fresh out of the reactor.

3.   Second, it is proposing that the spent rods be moved out of North Korea to a third country for reprocessing or storage.

4.   The spent rods are now in a pool within a locked building at the site, four miles south of Eureka and near several earthquake fault lines.

5.   The recycling process extracts useable nuclear material from the spent nuclear rods while reducing their potential to be used in weapons, the Russian Nuclear Ministry has said.

6.   The recycling process extracts useable nuclear material from the spent rods while reducing their potential to be used in weapons, the Atomic Energy Ministry has said.

7.   The recycling process extracts useable nuclear material from the spent rods while reducing their potential to be used in weapons, the Nuclear Ministry has said.

8.   The recycling process extracts useable nuclear material from the spent rods while reducing their potential to be used in weapons, the Nuclear Power Ministry has said.

9.   IAEA sources here said the spent rods extracted were too radioactive to be moved for the time being.