After three years' work the last consignment of nuclear fuel rods has been removed.

It is used in nuclear fuel rods in nuclear reactors.

That is why he and some other local leaders are talking about a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel rods.

His father works there as a consultant to makers of nuclear fuel rods.

The government said in the English translation of a statement issued over the weekend that it had already started to reprocess spent nuclear fuel rods.

It also moved its collection of 8,000 nuclear fuel rods, and their whereabouts are still unknown.

The plant will be dismantled starting in 2005, after spent nuclear fuel rods are removed and sent to France for reprocessing.

In addition to expelling international atomic weapons inspectors it has moved spent nuclear fuel rods out of storage, American officials say.

It is also clear that we have to express our concern at the supply by Russia of nuclear fuel rods to Iran.

Cooling water levels had fallen so much that parts of the nuclear fuel rods were exposed and partial melting might have occurred.