Fuel bundles at Big Rock Point were close to six feet high and about six inches square. They held 121 narrow fuel rods 70 inches long, four of which, on the corners, were inactive. Each rod held about 120 of these uranium dioxide fuel pellets half an inch long, as wide as a pencil, that weighed .9% of an ounce. There were just over 14,000 pellets in each bundle. 9828 rods in 84 bundles held just shy of 1,180,000 pellets that weighed 14.5 tons.

The fuel bundles used in the largest plants today are from 12 to 14 feet long.

Holding a uranium pellet poses no danger. The uranium in it is enriched to about 3.2%, only a few percentage points higher than that found in its natural state.

The potential energy in this pellet equals that contained in 149 gallons of petroleum oil, 1780 pounds of coal, and 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas. The energy in a single rod equals almost 107 tons of coal or over 100 cords of dry firewood. The energy in a single bundle equals close to 12,500 tons of coal, or over 11,000 cords of wood.