Once the rods had been exhausted for their original purpose, the spent fuel could be reprocessed into plutonium in sufficient quantities to make nuclear weapons.

这些燃料棒因为最初的用途而耗完后，还可以被再加工成足够数量的钚，足够用来制造核武器。

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Russia is legally required to ensure that the re-enriched fuel and reprocessed waste is returned or properly disposed of, but only a small percentage of the original material gets sent back.

法律上，俄国应该确保再浓缩核燃料及后处理核废料被回收或者正确处理，但是仅有一小部分原材料被回收。

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Spent fuel from NPPs is planned to be reprocessed in China to make full utilization of uranium.

废燃料的核电站计划在中国再加工，使铀的充分利用。

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He said the Iranian official told the diplomats that even if Tehran accepted a big power offer of last November to export some of its enriched uranium to be reprocessed as fuel for a research reactor, the broader Iranian enrichment drive would continue.

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The MOX plant is due to start producing reprocessed fuel for use in civilian reactors in 2017 or 2018.

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Existing stocks, former nukes and reprocessed fuel provide the rest.

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They were working in Reactor No. 3 which is of particular concern because it is the only unit to use MOX fuel, which is reprocessed spent fuel mixed with plutonium.

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