That figure includes mining uranium, designing power plants and reprocessing waste fuel.
There would also be legal hurdles to overcome as reprocessing nuclear waste is one of the most regulated industries in America.
By reprocessing the waste of that very process.
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The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board concurs, adding that reprocessing may reduce nuclear waste but it does not yet eliminate it.
Another example is the government's ending of nuclear-waste reprocessing at Dounreay, Caithness, says Lorraine Mann, an Alliance member who waged a long campaign to bring about precisely that.
Councils in the west of the county have expressed an interest in taking waste from the Sellafield reprocessing plant.
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Councils in west Cumbria have expressed an interest in hosting an underground repository for waste from the Sellafield reprocessing plant.
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This would have the advantage of ending the production of radioactive waste, which must be stored, and of stopping the flushing of technetium-99, a new waste by-product of reprocessing, into the Irish Sea, which would please the Irish government.
While the report focuses more on finding long-term storage for radioactive waste, it also considered the reprocessing of such fuel.
Reprocessing should be understood simply as a tool for waste management.
Maybe some company could offer a reprocessing service that gives the utility a smaller quantity of waste for the repository plus some nuclear fuel to help offset the cost.
Chemical reprocessing at Hanford would generate 22, 000 tonnes of high-level waste and 500, 000 tonnes of low-level waste.
He argues that, for a utility starting from scratch, reprocessing would be two to three times as expensive as simply storing the waste.
South Korea has stressed that the reprocessing technology it is seeking to master, called pyro processing, is crucial to managing its growing nuclear waste, which could potentially pose an environmental threat.
They are calling for nuclear reprocessing to be suspended, claiming the discharge of tiny traces of radioactivity, which are pumped out from a waste pipe, can be detected in seaweed and shellfish as far away as Norway.
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