spent fuel from Japanese power reactors to extract plutonium. The reprocessing waste is a highly radioactive liquid that is turned into glass logs ("vitrified") for long-term storage and disposal in Japan.

This processing of reactor wastes to recover plutonium is called "reprocessing." If plutonium is then mixed with uranium, the so-called "mixed-oxide" (MOX) fuel can be used to run reactors. This is the

States to use an armed escort vessel when shipping plutonium derived from reprocessing U.S.-supplied fuel, but not when shipping the highly radioactive wastes produced from reprocessing," Leventhal noted.

if all the spent fuel now in storage there is reprocessed. This plutonium will likely be returned to Japan in the form of plutonium-uranium, mixed-oxide (MOX) reactor fuel. The nuclear wastes that are

Obtaining a Chinese pledge to refrain from reprocessing and recycling plutonium would be a notable achievement of your 1993 policy to "not encourage the civil use of plutonium" and "seek to eliminate

the Tokai reprocessing plant’s waste explosion and fire, and the Tokai criticality accident all have resulted from Japan’s program to produce and use plutonium fuel and to develop fast breeder reactors.

the Energy Department changed the original plan for reprocessing the plutonium at the Savannah River site without the state's consent. He said he fears that if the government's new approach falls through,

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To reprocess the plutonium, the Energy Department plans to spend $3.8 billion to build and operate two massive structures at SRS. Hodges' fear is that the structures won't be built, and the plutonium

the federal government to pay a fine if it does not reprocess the plutonium into nuclear power-plant fuel by a fixed date. As recently as the weekend, Democratic and Republican elected officials were