Fuel Rods

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  Watch: Man's Huge Mistake While Getting Fuel For Boat At Petrol Station

  The spillage continued until the man had used 231 litres of fuel, totaling AUD $536.76 (Rs 30,700).

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  UAE Loads Fuel Rods At Barakah Nuclear Plant, Arab World's First

  The United Arab Emirates has started loading fuel rods into the first reactor at its Barakah nuclear plant, operators said Wednesday, two days after regulators gave the green light.

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  North Korea Claims To Have Resumed Plutonium Production: Report

  North Korea said it has resumed plutonium production by reprocessing spent fuel rods and that it has no plans to stop nuclear tests as long as perceived US threats remain, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported today.

• First of Four Fukushima Reactors Cleared of Nuclear Fuel

  One of four heavily damaged reactor buildings at Japan's tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear power plant has been cleared of radioactive fuel rods, the operator said today.

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  Japan's Wrecked Nuclear Plant Removes First Set of Spent Fuel Rods

  The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima atomic plant removed 400 tonnes of spent uranium fuel from a damaged reactor building, the first of four sets of used rods to be removed in a cleanup expected to last decades.

• Fukushima operator to start dangerous fuel-rod removal

  Japanese nuclear engineers were on Monday preparing to move uranium and plutonium fuel rods at Fukushima nuclear plant.

• Fukushima plant readies for dangerous fuel rod removal

  Nuclear engineers in Japan are readying to move uranium and plutonium fuel rods at Fukushima, in their most difficult and dangerous task since the plant's runaway reactors were brought under control two years ago.

• Japan approves fuel removal from pool at Fukushima nuke plant

  Japanese regulators have given a final approval for a plan to remove fuel rods from an uncontained cooling pool at a damaged reactor building in Fukushima which is considered as the highest risk at the crippled nuclear plant.

• Fuel loading begins in Kudankulam Nuclear plant

  India's atomic energy regulator on Friday said it has given its nod to Nuclear Power Corporation Ltd (NPCIL) to load enriched uranium fuel rods in the first reactor at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP).

• Iran to install fuel rods in Nuclear reactor on Wednesday

  Iran will insert its first domestically-produced nuclear fuel rods into a research reactor in Tehran on Wednesday, a top Iranian official said. "Because western countries were unwilling to help us, we began enriching uranium to 20 percent to make nuclear fuel rods," Ali Bagheri, deputy chief of Iran's National Security Council, said in an interview...

• Iran says it's produced first nuclear fuel rod

  Iran says its scientists have produced the nation's first nuclear fuel rod, a feat of engineering the West doubted Tehran was capable of.

• 'Suicide squad' mans Japan's nuclear plant

  Personnel attempting to cool down Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have been dubbed a "suicide squad" with their families accepting their fate like a "death sentence".The Sankei Shimbun newspaper called the police team "Kesshitai" - meaning a "unit that expects to die", according to The Independent.The nuclear plant was badly damaged in the...

• Spent fuel rods in Japanese nuclear reactors a long-term risk

  Even as workers race to prevent the radioactive cores of the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan from melting down, concerns are growing that nearby pools holding spent fuel rods could pose an even greater danger. The pools, which sit on the top level of the reactor buildings and keep spent fuel submerged in water, have lost their cooling systems and...

• Workers strain to retake control after blast and fire at Japan plant

  A small crew of technicians braved radiation and fire through the day on Tuesday as they fought to prevent three nuclear reactors in northeastern Japan from melting down and stop storage ponds loaded with spent uranium fuel pods from bursting into flames.Tokyo Electric Power Company officials announced on Tuesday evening that they were preparing to...

• Japan: Nuclear fuel rods exposed at stricken Fukushima plant

  A Japanese official says fuel rods at a troubled nuclear reactor were temporarily exposed.The exposure happened at Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant -- the latest reactor to lose its ability to cool down. The other two reactors at the plant are facing a meltdown and authorities are racing to cool them with sea water. (Read: Second explosion at...