If the newcomers acquire fuel production and reprocessing facilities then the risk of material finding its way into weapons will rise sharply.

如果新兴核国家获取了燃料生产和再加工设施，那么材料流向武器制造的危险将急剧增加。

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"Reprocessing of spent fuel rods is at its final phase and extracted plutonium is being weaponised, " it said.

据信中透露：“乏燃料棒再处理已经进入了最后阶段，与此同时镮的武器化也正在进行。”

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Uranium and plutonium are most likely to find their way into weapons via the enrichment and reprocessing of fuel for nuclear power plants.

铀和钚很可能通过核电厂燃料的浓缩和再加工而流向武器制造。

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The Obama Administration has dismissed spent-fuel reprocessing systems already used in France and Japan because of security and environmental risks.

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TOKYO Japan is preparing to start up a massive nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant over the objections of the Obama administration, which fears the move may stoke a broader race for nuclear technologies and even weapons in North Asia and the Middle East.

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Would it make sense to embrace some sort of closed-fuel cycle, with limited reprocessing of spent fuel?

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