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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
This study was the first to directly compare the efficiency and cost of reprocessing endoscopes with EVOTECH ECR versus manual cleaning and reprocessing with an AER in an actual Canadian clinic practice.
Therefore, in these relatively infrequent scenarios, the cost of reprocessing in the EVOTECH ECR could be higher than the cost with manual cleaning plus AER because the labour cost savings associated with the avoidance of manual cleaning would not be realized.
Costs of materials/supplies, reprocessing, service delivery, and training.
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.
