Sentence examples for reprocessing technology from inspiring English sources
Rather than exporting enrichment or reprocessing technology to newcomers, the agency maintains, nuclear powers should export lightly enriched uranium, which cannot be used to make a bomb, and subsequently take back the radioactive waste, which contains plutonium.
Another point of contention is the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technology, which can be used to produce highly enriched uranium and also plutonium both valuable materials for nuclear weapons.
Though the goal of 100-percent efficiency has yet to be attained by any country's nuclear industry, a closed-loop fuel cycle is not an unrealistic ambition, based on current progress in reprocessing technology.
Adequate design and operating experience was gained from these two plants for mastering the reprocessing technology.
Developing advanced reprocessing technology including actinides partitioning for PWR spent fuel is the most important task during next ten years and the reprocessing technology for FBR spent fuel is needed after 2035.
A new reprocessing technology, FLUOREX was proposed for thermal reactors cycle and future thermal/fast reactors (coexistence) cycle.
Iran has no legitimate need to pursue either enrichment or reprocessing technologies and should forswear both approaches entirely.
The United States abandoned reprocessing technologies in the Ford and Carter administrations, citing proliferation dangers in creating a "plutonium economy," higher costs and environmental concerns.
And, assuming that Iran now co-operates fully with inspections as promised, it need not trigger sanctions.The Europeans argue that encouragement rather than rule-book tossing can better persuade Iran to give up the weapons-usable enrichment and reprocessing technologies it has mastered.
Allowing South Korea to develop either the enrichment or reprocessing technologies would be a rare exception, one that nonproliferation advocates said would set a bad precedent.
Thanks to tips from Iranian opposition groups, sharp sleuthing by I.A.E.A. inspectors and increasing pressure from Western powers, Iran was finally forced to admit that it had been pursuing both uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing technologies, at a level of sophistication no one dreamed possible.
