The costs for the delay differ from reactor to reactor.
Once converted to reactor use, that fuel is very difficult to use in a weapon.
Its businesses cover everything from uranium mining to reactor design and construction to the building of nuclear weapons.
The reason for official reluctance to admit that the earthquake did direct structural damage to reactor one is obvious.
Yet it is not fuel costs that have been the impediment to reactor construction in recent years, but capital costs.
They were found in the basement of the turbine building connected to reactor No. 4 at the Daiichi plant.
Even the government admits that "the value of the fuel to reactor operators is significantly less than the cost of its manufacture".
Early this year, a virus affected a computer system at FirstEnergy's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant, but environmental groups say the computers were not linked to reactor operations.
Even as others fled in fear for their lives, she would have precisely 60 minutes to report to Reactor 3 to help contain the damage.
For example, the Nuclear Control Institute has pushed vigorously for immobilization and against converting plutonium to reactor fuel, which is known as mixed oxide, or MOx.
Years before the tsunami, labor activists had drawn attention to the dangers facing "nuclear gypsies," the low-level workers who roamed from reactor to reactor looking for work.
