No reprocessing or export of spent fuel has ever taken place.

Still, the plant along with its spent nuclear fuel, extracted plutonium, and nuclear reprocessing waste poses significant radiological hazards that a military strike could disperse into the environment.

The corresponding annual figures for large fuel reprocessing plants are 200 500 μSv.

Several decades from now, reprocessing might offer a safe means of spent fuel disposal.

The annual capacity of Japan apos s reprocessing plant is 800 tonnes the largest in the world.

It basically boils down to the Bushehr nuclear power plant and to the Natanz fuel enrichment plant.

It also urged Japan to abandon its plans to open the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant in 2007 as the first commercial scale plant in a non nuclear weapon State.

In addition, Israeli scientists probably helped construct the G 1 plutonium production reactor and UP 1 reprocessing plant at Marcoule.

Reprocessing

Biodiesel made from plant oils is undoubtedly the most technically and commercially advanced renewable fuel today.

As a consequence, five years after the plant has been decommissioned, fuel remains in the reactors.

Of equal concern to Ukraine is the problem of the disposal of spent fuel from the plant.

Experimental programme for the replacement of diesel oil by biofuel and fuel oil by plant based oils

(e) quot Nuclear installation quot means a nuclear power reactor, a nuclear research reactor, a critical facility, a conversion plant, a fabrication plant, a reprocessing plant, an isotope separation plant, a separate storage installation and any other installation or location in or at which fresh or irradiated nuclear material or significant quantities of radioactive materials are present.

States which, like Sweden, used nuclear energy for peaceful purposes should be given assurances of access to fuel without the need for enrichment and reprocessing capacities.

It shared the opinion of the Director General of IAEA that there was no reason to build additional facilities for uranium enrichment or reprocessing of irradiated nuclear fuel.

The vast majority of energy is produced with imported fuel, including gas and nuclear fuel (for its one nuclear power plant) from Russia the main domestic energy source is hydroelectric.

Israel started investigating the nuclear field soon after its founding in 1948 and with French support secretly began building a nuclear reactor and reprocessing plant in the late 1950s in Dimona.

The spent fuel has been stored on the Ignalina NPP site since the start of operation of the Nuclear Power Plant.

6. Difficulties at the radiochemical laboratory, otherwise known as the reprocessing plant, centred on inspection activities agreed upon in Vienna and designed to restore continuity of knowledge through taking samples and smears.

Mr. Zeller (Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League) said that reprocessing plutonium waste for fuel placed public safety and the environment at serious risk and undermined the goal of nuclear non proliferation.

Technical teams from both sides worked out a project on the safe transportation of fresh highly enriched fuel of the BN 350 reactor and its reprocessing into low grade nuclear material.

The Russian Federation is ready to establish strict but objective criteria that would regulate transfers of the most sensitive nuclear technology, such as uranium enrichment and chemical reprocessing of nuclear fuel.

There arises also the problem of returning to Ukraine or obtaining compensation for nuclear components, obtained from nuclear warheads, which, after reprocessing, can be used as fuel for nuclear power stations.

23. In late 1992, IAEA again approached the nuclear weapons States with a request for proposals for removal of the irradiated fuel assemblies, reprocessing and permanent storage of the resultant wastes.

(f) quot Nuclear installations quot include nuclear power and research reactors, fuel fabrication, uranium enrichment, isotopes separation and reprocessing facilities as well as any other installations with fresh or irradiated nuclear fuel and materials in any form and establishments storing significant quantities of radioactive materials.

22. However, the complex legal and practical problems involved in removing, reprocessing and permanently storing the resultant wastes from the irradiated fuel assemblies used in the reactors and now stored at Tuwaitha and Location B, have so far delayed the removal of this nuclear fuel.

Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful, and has enriched uranium to less than 5 , consistent with fuel for a civilian nuclear power plant.

Clearly, too, I would hope, in the next year or so, to make some progress with regard to establishing better control over the sensitive parts of the fuel cycle, namely, enrichment and reprocessing activities.

My Government remains deeply concerned about the surplus plutonium and highly enriched uranium that will continue to result from the dismantling of nuclear warheads and from the growing commercial reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel.

Globally dispersed radionuclides mainly from reprocessing and solid waste disposal

One of the alternatives that the report analyses as an incentive for a State to forego the development of its own activities related to the complete nuclear fuel cycle, particularly as concerns enrichment and reprocessing, is to provide assurances of the supply of nuclear fuel based on various options.

And the world s first renewable energy hydrogen hybrid power plant, producing both electricity and hydrogen as car fuel, started production in the fall of 2011.

They added that Cuban gas could be economically converted into liquid products such as gasoline or diesel fuel through the construction of a conversion plant.

These include nuclear waste disposal, the end of the nuclear fuel cycle, legal responsibility for nuclear damage, and associated insurance of nuclear power plant operators.

This would give countries confidence that they can count on reliable supplies of fuel to run their nuclear power plants, and therefore do not need to develop their own uranium enrichment or plutonium reprocessing capability.

After it withdrew from a restraining agreement negotiated by the Clinton administration in 1994, it expelled International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and began reprocessing spent fuel that could produce another six bombs worth of plutonium.

An example of our policy is our joint project with the United States on the safe transportation of fresh highly enriched fuel of the BN 350 reactor and its reprocessing into low grade nuclear material.

Oh right! Fuel, fuel!

At the same time, we defend the inalienable right of all States to develop their own systems to produce nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, including with respect to the complete nuclear fuel production and reprocessing cycle.

We will continue to work for agreement on these controls in the Nuclear Suppliers Group, while also working to ensure that States renouncing enrichment and reprocessing have reliable access to fuel for civil nuclear power reactors.

Amongst the topics of the study will be a domestic uranium enrichment plant for supplying low enriched fuel for nuclear power reactors, either domestic or foreign.

Such developments, as well as the expected release of the fissionable material from dismantled nuclear weapons and the ever growing amount of plutonium from the ongoing reprocessing of spent civilian fuel, require an effective international verification mechanism.

The power plant of tomorrow is no power plant.

The spread of enrichment and reprocessing technology poses a particularly dangerous risk.