Because it is cheaper to store them on site than to dispose of them, while Japan awaits the opening of a reprocessing plant.

因为日本在等待后处理厂开工时，就地储存比处理它们成本低。

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The dismantling of a nuclear reprocessing plant caused a leak of radioactivity yesterday.

昨天拆除核后处理工厂引起了放射物泄漏。

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On March 11, when the first foreshock struck, my colleague Jeffrey Lewis and I were having lunch with senior industry officials at Japan's controversial Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant.

3月11日，当地震的第一波前震来袭，我和同事杰弗里·刘易斯正与资深工业界高官在日本备受争议的六所村核燃料处理厂里享用午餐。

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However, there are two more things that you need: you need an enrichment plant and a reprocessing plant.

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The answer lies in its plant for reprocessing spent fuel, built partly to take used fuel from Germany and Japan (which largely paid for its construction) and partly to produce the plutonium that was once expected to be needed as fuel for fast-breeder reactors, in Britain and elsewhere.

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One large reprocessing plant can produce about 1, 000 bombs' worth of plutonium each year.

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