reprocessing facility

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• reprocessing — reprocess re‧pro‧cess [riːˈprəʊses ǁ ˈprɑː ] verb [transitive] to treat a waste substance so that it is safe or can be used again: • The plant has all the facilities necessary to reprocess nuclear fuel. reprocessing noun [uncountable] : • a… …   Financial and business terms

• facility — noun 1 (usually facilities) buildings/services/equipment ADJECTIVE ▪ excellent, first class, good ▪ adequate, appropriate, proper, suitable …   Collocations dictionary

• Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant — The Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant, or THORP, is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria, England. THORP is owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and operated by Sellafield Ltd (which is the site licensee company).… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear reprocessing — technology was developed to chemically separate and recover fissionable plutonium from irradiated nuclear fuel.[1] Reprocessing serves multiple purposes, whose relative importance has changed over time. Originally reprocessing was used solely to… …   Wikipedia

• West Valley Reprocessing Plant — is a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at West Valley, New York, USA. It was operated successfully from 1966 72. During this time period, 660,000 gallons of highly radioactive waste accumulated in an underground waste tank. Escalating… …   Wikipedia

• Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant — The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant nihongo|六ヶ所村核燃料再処理施設|Rokkasho Kakunenryou Saishori Shisetsu is a Nuclear reprocessing plant owned by Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited. Since 1993 there has been 219 billion yen invested in the project. It is currently… …   Wikipedia

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