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In this handout image provided by Tokyo Electric Power Co, workers remove nuclear fuel rods from a pool at No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi...

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A model of the uranium fuel used in the reactors is seen at the visitors center, which shows the small ceramic pellets inserted and sealed into long,vertical metal alloy tubes or rods, at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power plant in San Luis Obispo, Calif.,

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Bradwell Nuclear Power Station in Essex. Construction of Bradwell power station began in December 1957 and electricity generation started in 1962. It...

Bradwell Nuclear Power Station in Essex. Construction of Bradwell power station began in December 1957 and electricity generation started in 1962. It had two Magnox reactors producing 242 megawatts (MW) net electrical in total. On a typical day it could

Reactor charging floor of calder hall, Uranium rods inserted into the core of the Calder Hall nuclear power plant, circa July 1957, Sellafield,...

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Scrum valve for emergency control rods manufactured by Toshiba Corp. Is seen inside the building which houses the No. 5 reactor at Chubu Electric...

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Members of the media examine equipment for emergency control rods inside the building which houses the No. 5 reactor at Chubu Electric Power Co.'s...

Members of the media examine equipment for emergency control

An employee stands near equipment for emergency control rods inside the building which houses the No. 5 reactor at Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka...

An employee stands near equipment for emergency control rods

Television cameraman works in front of equipment for emergency control rods inside the building which houses the No. 5 reactor at Chubu Electric...

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Member of the media examines equipment for emergency control rods inside the building which houses the No. 5 reactor at Chubu Electric Power Co.'s...

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Uranium fuel rods are stored in traveling cases behind a closed-off area of the Bruce B nuclear power plant in Tiverton, Ontario, Canada, on Monday,...

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Uranium fuel rods are stored in traveling cases behind a closed-off area of the Bruce B nuclear power plant in Tiverton, Ontario, Canada, on Monday,...

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Spent uranium fuel rods, collected over 30 years of operation, are stored under water after powering a reactor at the Bruce B nuclear power plant in...

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After the success of the prototype Calder Hall nuclear power station which went on line in 1956, the Atomic Energy Authority commissioned a string of...

Desplittering machine in the reactor showing handling of nuclear rods. 1965.

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Nuclear fuel rod, late 20th century.

These fuel rods have a key role in the workings of magnox nuclear power stations. The rods are long bars of natural uranium clad in magnox, a...

Magnox fuel rod, c 1968.

Ukraine. In the Restricted and Uninhabitable 30 Kilometer Zone Around the Chernobyl Power Plant and the Pripyat Labor Camp. Switch On An Iron Rod.

Ukraine. In the Restricted and Uninhabitable 30 Kilometer Zone Around the Chernobyl Power Plant and the Pripyat Labor Camp. Switch On An Iron Rod

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Hwang Joon-Kook , South Korean deputy chief nuclear envoy leaves for Pyongyang via Beijing at Incheon International Airport west of Seoul on January...

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Employee works on the "Auxiliary transfer cast which is used to remove and replace fuel rods in the reactor. Credit: The Denver Post

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Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar getting to grips with the remote handles used for breaking down nuclear fuel rods in the Prototype Fast Reactor,...

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Boris Cambreleng - This picture taken 15 December 2007 shows the top of atomic fuel rods and control tubes plunged into Reactor Number 2, one of the...

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Boris Cambreleng - This picture taken 15 December 2007 shows the top of atomic fuel rods and control tubes plunged into Reactor Number 2, one of the...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Boris Cambreleng

Boris Cambreleng - This picture taken 15 December 2007 atomic fuel rods and control tubes used in Reactor Number 2, one of the two units at the...

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View into the control rods unit for fuel elements while the reactor is turned off for a routine inspection at the nuclear power plant on August 15,...

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View into the control rods unit for fuel elements while the reactor is turned off for a routine inspection at the nuclear power plant on August 15,...

Kruemmel Nuclear Plant Investigation Continues

Employee are in the control rods unit for fuel elements while the reactor is turned off for a routine inspection at the nuclear power plant on August...

Kruemmel Nuclear Plant Investigation Continues

Employee walks in the control rods unit for fuel elements while the reactor is turned off for a routine inspection at the nuclear power plant on...

Kruemmel Nuclear Plant Investigation Continues

An Employee looks up at the control rods unit for fuel elements while the reactor is turned off for a routine inspection at the nuclear power plant...

Kruemmel Nuclear Plant Investigation Continues

An Employee looks up at the control rods unit for fuel elements while the reactor is turned off for a routine inspection at the nuclear power plant...

Kruemmel Nuclear Plant Investigation Continues

Used fuel rods are seen stored underwater in the cooling ponds of Oldbury Nuclear Power Station on August 15 2006 in Oldbury Naite, Gloucestershire,...

Decommissioning Of Nuclear Power Stations In The UK

Dials in the control room that once measured power rods now all point to zero in Hinkley Point A Nuclear Power Station on August 1, 2006 in Hinkley...

Decommissioning Of Nuclear Power Stations In The UK

Warning tape hangs over fuel rods inside the reactor room at the Paks nuclear power plant, operated by MVM Paksi Atomeromu Zrt, in Paks, Hungary, on...

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Fuel rods sit inside the reactor room at the Paks nuclear power plant, operated by MVM Paksi Atomeromu Zrt, in Paks, Hungary, on Monday, April 10,...

Operations At Paks Nuclear Power Plant

Truck drives by cooling towers at the Temelin nuclear power plant June 27, 2000 in the Czech Republic. Temelin's first reactor is scheduled to...

CONTROVERSIAL TEMELIN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Technicians work to complete the first reactor at the Temelin nuclear power plant June 27, 2000 in the Czech Republic. Temelin's first reactor is...

CONTROVERSIAL TEMELIN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Piece of the central core lies in the nearly completed first reactor at the Temelin nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic, June 27, 2000....

CONTROVERSIAL TEMELIN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Technicians check data in the main control room at the Temelin nuclear power plant June 27, 2000 in the Czech Republic. Temelin's first reactor is...

CONTROVERSIAL TEMELIN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Westinghouse technician instructs his Czech asociates at the Temelin nuclear power plant June 27, 2000 in the Czech Republic. Temelin's first reactor...

CONTROVERSIAL TEMELIN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

The core of the first reactor lies nearly completed at the Temelin nuclear power plant June 27, 2000 in the Czech Republic. Temelin's first reactor...

CONTROVERSIAL TEMELIN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Construction of the first reactor, left, nears completion June 27, 2000 at the Temelin nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic. Temelin's first...

CONTROVERSIAL TEMELIN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Road marker points left near the Temelin nuclear power plant June 27, 2000 in the Czech Republic. Temelin's first reactor is scheduled to receive...

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Hafnium, Rare metal that is used in the control rods of nuclear reactors, filaments for incandescent lamps and jet engines.

Cadmium, Metal that is used especially as a protective covering for steel, in rechargeable batteries and in nuclear reactors .

Hafnium, Rare metal that is used in the control rods of nuclear reactors, filaments for incandescent lamps and jet engines.

Cadmium, Metal that is used especially as a protective covering for steel, in rechargeable batteries and in nuclear reactors .

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