Sentence examples for reprocessing waste from inspiring English sources

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

Of particular concern is "gutter oil" – cooking oil illegally made by reprocessing waste oil or by dredging up leftovers from restaurants and marketing it as new.

The principal steps of the fuel cycle include uranium mining and extraction from its ore (processing), uranium enrichment, fuel fabrication, loading and irradiation in the reactor (fuel management), unloading and cooling, reprocessing, waste packaging, and waste disposal.

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.

90Sr is one of several fission products that are concentrated in nuclear weapon and energy reprocessing waste and may interact with several different oxides depending on the waste form and disposal environment.

The installation houses nuclear reprocessing, waste disposal, fuel production and power production facilities.

Nuclear company Areva has plants at La Hague that have reprocessed waste from France's own extensive nuclear-power industry, as well as from Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Japan.

Two years ago they joined forces with a company called Newlife, whose founder, Keith Harrison, an industrial chemist, cracked the enigma code of the paint world: how to reprocess waste paint back to a superior grade emulsion.

Reprocessed waste yields usable uranium fuel, along with "an alchemist's dream" of other elements useful in industry and medicine, says Sherrell Greene, who retired in late 2011 as head of nuclear technology at the United States Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, and now works as a consultant.

"There are a number of paint recycling/reuse operations already up and running, such as Newlife Paints in Sussex, but the challenge is to work out how to scale them up to national level," says Cook. Newlife reprocesses waste water-based paint and turns it back into a premium grade emulsion.

It's where plutonium was produced for the first British bombs, and it continues to reprocess waste produced by nuclear power.