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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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Still, in a September letter to the United Nations, North Korea announced that Pyongyang's"reprocessing of spent fuel rods is at its final phase and extracted plutonium is being weaponized, " state media reported at the time.
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But China is growing increasingly anxious, both at North Korea's brinkmanship (before the 1994 deal the previous Clinton administration had considered reprocessing of spent fuel as justification for a military strike), and at America's firm insistence that North Korea dismantle its illicit weapons programmes before relations can improve.
ECONOMIST: Peace or war on the Korean peninsula
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Creating international nuclear fuel banks and shared management of enrichment, reprocessing and spent fuel storage facilities would make nonproliferation sense as well as supporting civil nuclear power in energy-thirsty Asia.
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That led the current North Korean president, Kim Jong Il, to order the reprocessing of the nation's spent nuclear fuel rods, to expel the inspectors and to explode two nuclear devices, destabilizing the region, Carter said.
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Reprocessing the recovery of plutonium from spent reactor fuel to make new fuel was conceived when plutonium was valuable.
ECONOMIST: The nuclear industry
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North Korea has said that it will reactivate all of its nuclear facilities and go ahead with reprocessing spent fuel.
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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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Tests to the power system of a reprocessing plant at Yongbyon suggest that North Korea may soon start extracting plutonium from a stock of 8, 000 spent fuel-rods.
ECONOMIST: North Korea