Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, wants a worldwide moratorium on enrichment of uranium and reprocessing of plutonium, the two fuels for nuclear weapons.

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The same is true of reprocessing: you can get plutonium out of used fuel.

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The material that went into Fat Man, the plutonium bomb detonated over Nagasaki, was made at Hanford, which at its peak consisted of nine nuclear reactors and five plutonium reprocessing plants.

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Even worse, reprocessing produces copious quantities of concentrated nuclear-weapon-usable materials, primarily plutonium.

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Japan had a reprocessing center in central Japan, called Tokai Mura, that harvested roughly seven tons of plutonium before the plant was shut in 2007.

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