Sentence examples for cost of reprocessing from inspiring English sources
One of my other ventures is a plastics business, and the cost of reprocessing its waste doesn't make it viable, sadly, it's cheaper to buy the virgin material".
Some commercial reprocessing plants were built or planned, but by the mid-1970s the cost of reprocessing had escalated to a point where its economics became questionable.
Recycling becomes economically attractive when the cost of reprocessing waste or recycled material is less than the cost of treating and disposing of the materials or of processing new raw materials.
Thanks to sustained diplomatic efforts, starting with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, and to the high cost of reprocessing, Japan is the only non-nuclear state that continues to reprocess its nuclear fuel.
Despite the added cost of reprocessing — about $2.5 billion a year for the new facility — Japan insists it is the only viable option for the spent nuclear fuel which is filling up the cooling pools at its reactors.
Eisaku Sato, the governor of Fukushima, where Tepco generates 25% of its electricity, says his prefecture has scrapped all plans to permit the use of MOX fuel.Add to this the vexed, and so far largely unaddressed, question of the cost of reprocessing, should it ever happen, and of disposing of the radioactive waste it generates.
Transuranic elements, in particular plutonium, can be recycled from the liquid salt fuel without the problems and costs of reprocessing solid fuels, making the nuclear waste virtually free of troublesome long-lived radionuclides.
Since the tips can be decontaminated and disinfected with the rest of the equipment in bleach or glutaraldehyde, there is not a significant additional cost component associated with these stages of reprocessing.
In order to analyze the economics of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, the Cost of Electricity (COE) of this and other competing technologies was calculated.
Costs of materials/supplies, reprocessing, service delivery, and training.
