21. The spent fuel rods contained enough plutonium for 10 nuclear warheads, officials said. 22. The Soviets mined both civil and military fuel rods and mixed the waste. 23. These range from X-ray machines to industrial sources to missing nuclear fuel rods . 24. The highly radioactive spent fuel rods will be sent to France for reprocessing. 25. You lose enough coolant, you melt the radioactive fuel rods in the core. 26. Mixed-oxide fuel is made by reprocessing spent uranium fuel rods from nuclear plants. 27. Cogema owns uranium mines, provides uranium enrichment and recycles spent nuclear fuel rods . 28. Each fuel rod cluster was supported by an inconel tie rod. 29. But the fuel rods continued to heat, and shot past 1, 000 degrees. 30. The first shipment involves about 360 fuel rods from South Korea.
