0 past simple and past participle of reprocess --
1 to put a material that has been used through another industrial process to change it so that it can be used again: --
It was first assumed that the waste would be recycled, would be reprocessed in an environmentally compatible manner.
The spent fuel will have to be reprocessed in a plant which has not yet been designed or built.
I understand that the quantities of spent fuel to be reprocessed have yet to be agreed.
As we have said, whether spent fuel is reprocessed is a key factor in determining what types and volumes of waste have to be managed.
Once spent fuel has been reprocessed and the reusable uranium and plutonium extracted the small proportion of high level waste can be vitrified.
Spent nuclear fuel is not regarded as waste but as a resource which can be reprocessed.
There have, however, to date been two shipments of reprocessed plutonium fuel—plutonium nitrate—by sea between the sites in question.
They are carefully dismantled and all reuseable materials, including all special nuclear materials, are recovered and reprocessed.
