Sentence examples for to start reprocessing from inspiring English sources
It then threatened to start reprocessing plutonium there, putting the six-party talks in jeopardy.
Yet the same government that says it wants to phase out atomic energy by the end of the 2030s also insists that it is committed soon to start reprocessing enough nuclear waste at Rokkasho to provide fuel for Japan's nuclear-power plants to go flat out into the 2050s.
The fuel rods had been sealed by an international agreement for almost a decade, until last winter, when North Korea expelled United Nations inspectors and started reprocessing them.
They have claimed that, in the past eight or nine months, after dropping out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treand and throwing out the inspectors, they restarted their reactors and started reprocessing spent fuel rods.
So I started reprocessing those things through various filters, literal and conceptual.
Should Mr Kim start reprocessing his stored spent fuel, he will not only quickly have more bomb-usable plutonium, he will also have destroyed the most reliable evidence about his nuclear past.
Some electricity companies are said to be so concerned that they are privately reluctant for the reprocessing plant to start operating.Japan's electricity prices are already the highest in the industrialised world, even without these extra costs.
SEOUL, South Korea North Koreaea put further pressure on the United States to start bilateral talks by declaring on Tuesday that it had completed reprocessing its spent nuclear fuel for use in a bomb.
North Korea sought to exert pressure on the United States to start direct two-way talks by declaring on Tuesday that it had completed reprocessing its spent nuclear fuel for use in a bomb.
If established nuclear powers were to stop reprocessing (as Britain is doing), it might help to persuade others, such as South Korea, that it is better not to start.
PAGE A8 Confusion on North Korea North Korea appeared to announce that it was starting to reprocess nuclear fuel rods.
