 All that time it was impossible to send spent fuel to France, and the used fuel rods were piling up in the spent fuel pool.Between 2012 and 2015 ten transports were planned, in which each time 50 percent more fuel rods than usual would be taken by train to La Hague.The reprocessed uranium would be enriched in Russia, by mixing it with high enriched uranium from nuclear-powered submarines, discarded after the cold-war.