The three options are to export the waste, use heat treatment or make the waste into a fuel which would then be exported.

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Caerphilly, Cardiff, Monmouth, Carmarthen and Gwynedd councils plan to build Mechanical Biological treatment centres (MBTs) that will produce fuel for incineration.

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But Metcalf also confirmed the finding that many fossil fuel activities, particularly oil drilling, get very favorable tax treatment.

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What emerged was a wish list from customers that included cleaner ways to burn coal and more efficient wastewater treatment systems, as well as nuclear power and hydrogen fuel cells.

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The methane fuel powers a turbine that, in turn, produces electricity for the treatment facility.

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Iran has made much in the past of this civil use for its 19.75% LEU, arguing that it is running out of its original imported stock from Argentina (it now has enough to fuel the TRR for over eight years) which it needs for the treatment of cancer patients.

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His suggestion would be to reconsider some of the previously discarded options, with preference towards more modern thermal treatment processes, or systems of pre-treating the waste and creating fuel from it.

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The other is an agreement on a proposal to take Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium (LEU) and send it to Russia and France for conversion into fuel rods for use in Iran's small research reactor in Tehran, which produces isotopes for cancer treatment.

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