Sentence examples for reprocessing from inspiring English sources

That figure includes mining uranium, designing power plants and reprocessing waste fuel.

Just as it takes on the tricky business of running the European Union's six-month presidency, it picks a scrap on the sidelines over reprocessing nuclear waste with two of the allies it needs most, France and Britain.Strictly speaking, Mr Schröder's men are right to claim there is no direct connection between the issues facing the EU presidency and the nuclear row.

After all, their decision against reprocessing is causing a lot of trouble at home as well as abroad.

SWILLING around murky ponds in the oldest part of Sellafield, a nuclear research and reprocessing centre in Cumbria, is a soupy, radioactive sludge.

Some can also run on mixed oxide (MOx) fuel, which is produced by reprocessing spent fuel to extract the plutonium and uranium and combining them to make a new fuel.

As a long shot, Mr Samore has suggested a concerted diplomatic push, offering incentives to wean Iran from its enrichment and reprocessing efforts.

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.

Israel wouldn't mind such an exemption either.The NSG's damage-control efforts now centre on a new rule to bar the sale of kit for uranium-enrichment or plutonium-reprocessing to any country outside the NPT.

It is complicating efforts to define criteria for the transfer of sensitive uranium-enrichment and plutonium-reprocessing technologies.

For one thing, many new fast reactors and fuel-reprocessing facilities would have to be built, adding billions of dollars to the enormous sums already required for new nuclear plants.

There were no grid connections, but no sign of either a fuel-making or a plutonium-reprocessing plant.