That would make more sense! I searched for "fuel rod (empty)" and it came up first time, yet the recipe for uranium fuel rod still shows empty cell, not fuel rod.
I am having problems making U fuel rods - the canning machine (either version) will not accept empty cells in any of its slots, and so I cannot craft fuel rods. This also means I am unable to craft biofuel cells or coalfuel cells either.
Am I doing something silly or is this a bug? I am using the latest version supplied with the Yogscraft modpack if that helps.