How is the Weapons Engineer handled? The Weapons Engineer talent tree focuses on taking fuel rods that are mostly or entirely used up, and turning them into depleted fuel, which can make cheap piercing magazines among other things. That seems pretty damn near impossible with the tweaks ITA makes to used fuel rods.

Additionally, the talent "The Nuclear Option", from the same tree, allows you to make a prototype laser gun (Rapid Fissile Accelerator) that uses fuel rods to function. Do these rods become super-heated upon use in that, as well?