Uranium Fuel Rod

Nuclear Fuel Rods are used as fuel in the Nuclear Power Plant at a rate of 1 rod every 5 minutes. They are turned into Nuclear Wastes throughout the burning process. They give off strong radiation.

Crafting
Note: the crafting process of this item is not available in the Craft Bench, only in the Manufacturer. This is probably due to the radiation.

Trivia

 * There are 3 known normal Uranium nodes. Each node with a Miner Mk.3, overclocked to 250% and using a Conveyor Belt Mk.5 or higher can produce 600/min Uranium ore for a total of 1,800/min. Using the alternative recipes, it is possible to produce 94.5/min Nuclear Fuel Rods. Since each rod 'burns' for 5 min at full power consumption, the rods can thus sustain 472.5 Nuclear Power Plants, which combined will produce 1 181 250 MW (or 1.18 TW) of power. Now your only problem is actually finding a use for that much power, finding a place for putting that many power plants, and dealing with the 2,362.5/min Nuclear Waste (a full Industrial Storage Container in 10.16 minutes). However, all of the power produced has to be fully utilized to produce that much waste.
 * Someone on Reddit built a 1TW setup.

Usage

 * Nuclear Fuel Rods are used as fuel in the Nuclear Power Plant and each turn into 25 Nuclear Wastes.
 * Nuclear Fuel Rods can also be used as fuel in vehicles without producing any waste. Although it does make the vehicle in question radioactive. (Riding in a radioactive vehicle causes no damage to the player)

Reference
Kernbrennstab