Regulators suspended operations at Shanghai Husi Food following media reports that it reprocessed expired meat and sold it to companies that included McDonald's and KFC.
Japan used to send spent nuclear fuel to France and Britain to be reprocessed.
American and South Korean officials think that possibly only a small number of fuel-rods have been reprocessed so far.
The North is thought to have enough reprocessed plutonium for 8-12 crude nuclear weapons, while its Soviet-era reprocessing plant at Yongbyon is only just getting going again.
The very idea of consuming reprocessed human, animal and industrial waste can turn people's stomachs.
It was quickly and easily fixed, and the rejected cards reprocessed.
"It's going to be toxic forever," says Arn Keeling, a professor who studies abandoned mines in northern Canada.The Dene, the largest group of indigenous people in the territory, in whose homelands the Giant Mine sits, want the dust taken out and reprocessed into a more stable form.
These epic processes melted and reprocessed vast amounts of rock and concentrated chemical elements in new ways.
But it is far from clear how freely North Korea will let the inspectors operate.The IAEA will want to verify how much of Yongbyon's spent fuel has been reprocessed since 2003 (all 8,000 of the reactor's spent fuel rods, the North Koreans have said, enough for half a dozen bombs).
The Senate gave first-round backing to reform of the civil service; the lower house did the same for pensions reform.See article: Brazil's presidentGreenpeace activists tried, and failed, to stop a ship carrying reprocessed nuclear fuel through the Panama Canal.Foreign ministers from the Rio Group countries most of Latin America met those of the European Union in Panama city.
In some countries nuclear waste is "reprocessed"—a procedure in which plutonium is separated from the rest of the spent fuel, which can then be made into new fuel.
