The Vienna-based U . N . International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been monitoring the North Korean facilities, said that Pyongyang had unsealed a 5-megawatt reactor and a spent fuel storage chamber that holds 8, 000 irradiated fuel rods.
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Michael Mueller, an environmental affairs specialist for the opposition Social Democrats, asked Angela Merkel, the new environment minister, to cancel the transport, saying it was unnecessary since there is plenty of room for spent fuel storage at Germany's 18 nuclear reactors.
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The spent nuclear fuel is currently stored at the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation ( ISFSI ) on the plant site because of the United States Department of Energy's failure to find a suitable alternative to storing or disposing of the spent fuel.
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The Vienna-based IAEA, which has been monitoring the facilities, said earlier Pyongyang this weekend unsealed a spent fuel storage chamber that holds 8, 000 irradiated fuel rods at the 5-megawatt, Soviet-designed reactor in Yongbyon, 80 kilometers ( 50 miles ) north of Pyongyang.
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Meanwhile, Alexander Rumyantsev, head of Russian Federal Agency on Nuclear Energy, who was also attending the meeting, said that talks are still at a very early stage about creating an international spent fuel storage unit, but that such a facility could be built in Russia.
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Three companies Holtec International, NAC International and Areva-Transnuclear NUHOMS are marketing Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations ( ISFSI's ) based upon an unshielded multi-purpose canister which is transported and stored in on-site vertical or horizontal shielded storage modules constructed of steel and concrete.
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Xcel Energy owns and operates two nuclear power plants, Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant near Monticello, Minnesota, and Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant near Red Wing, Minnesota and stores the spent fuel from these nuclear plants on site in independent spent fuel storage installations . ( ISFSIs ).
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"The Bush administration could just continue to stiff-arm Russia on the spent fuel storage issue, saying, ` No way, no how'because it can't keep its own nuclear material safe, so why encourage more, " said Rose Gottemoeller, a former Department of Energy official who supervised non-proliferation programs involving Russia in the Clinton administration.
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This rule has previously prevented Riverkeeper from raising safety or environmental concerns about spent fuel storage at Indian Point in the relicensing proceeding, despite the fact that the packed spent fuel pools are prone to leaking radioactive water into the Hudson River, and present a major safety risk to the twenty million people living within fifty miles of Indian Point.
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