"reprocess" is an acceptable word in written English.
You can use it when you need to refer to the process of treating something again, or re-treating something so that it can be used again. For example: The recycling facility was able to reprocess the plastic so that it could be reused.
That's what messed up the economics of Britain's nuclear programme: Britain decided to reprocess its waste, which proved hugely expensive.
It takes space and needs to be guarded, but it can provide an adequate solution for a century or more.Special report The dream that failed From squash court to submarine Blow-ups happen Leave well alone Bandwagons and busts Over the rainbow Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsThat is if you do not want to reprocess the fuel to recover the plutonium inside it.
India, which has never signed the NPT, does not yet have any American-built reactors, let alone the spent fuel from them to reprocess.
Being able to reprocess plutonium and enrich uranium would give Iran a choice of weapons technologies.Next week's IAEA report will press Iran to agree to toughened safeguards.
Nor is India to be allowed to reprocess American-origin spent nuclear fuel to extract its plutonium.Might India test again?
His Democratic predecessor, Ann Richards, never cosy with environmentalists, once approved a plan to reprocess flammable napalm at a Houston plant.
After all, Japan has long relied on nuclear power for a good chunk of its electricity needs, and has ample spent fuel to reprocess.
Without that freedom, Mr ElBaradei explained, he could provide no more than "limited" assurances of Iran's intentions.Suspicions of these intensified last month, when Iran announced it would start enriching uranium, and eventually make and reprocess its own nuclear fuel.
Before the talks, American officials had insisted that any attempt by North Korea to reprocess the spent fuel-rods at Yongbyon would "change the picture entirely".
The commission was ordered to reprocess his request.
But from what has been said about it, it makes the damage far worse, by allowing India to reprocess American-supplied nuclear fuel, and by permitting it to build fuel stockpiles and hence withstand any future cut-off of supplies should it test another bomb.
