A few can stay together long enough to use as radioactive fuel.
About two-thirds of the radioactive fuel itself has been removed.
The use of nuclear technology requires a radioactive fuel.
Slowing the whole process is a lack of shipping casks for radioactive fuel.
Let us consider our present atomic power stations, where the spent radioactive fuel is stored in tanks under water.
It can be used on the highly radioactive fuel directly from the reactor.
He has pointed out, however, that radioactive fuel would remain at the site even if the plant were to close.
There is not enough radioactive fuel to operate this mechanism much longer.
For more than 30 years in some cases, utilities have stored the radioactive fuel at their own plants.
The other components of an atom bomb - the design and the radioactive fuel - are more difficult to obtain.