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By reprocessing spent fuel plutonium can be obtained, this can be added to uranium to make a mixed oxide fuel (MOX), so it is a form of recycling, though it is not the original U-235 that is recycled.

Nuclear Reprocessing

It can produce low grade plutonium that need be extracted from the used nuclear fuel through used fuel reprocessing. However, power reactors are subject to the international nuclear safeguards to prevent its misuse.

Robert Civiak has written:

'Nuclear fusion power' -- subject(s): Nuclear energy, Nuclear fusion

'Breeder reactors' -- subject(s): Breeder reactors, Nuclear industry, Nuclear reactors

'Improved uranium utilization in once-through light water reactors' -- subject(s): Light water reactors, Technological innovations, Uranium as fuel

'Plutonium economics and Japan's nuclear fuel cycle policies' -- subject(s): Nuclear fuels, Plutonium, Reactor fuel reprocessing

'Economics of plutonium use in light water reactors' -- subject(s): Costs, Economic aspects of Plutonium as fuel, Economic aspects of Uranium as fuel, Light water reactors, Nuclear fuels, Plutonium as fuel, Reactor fuel reprocessing, Uranium as fuel

'Uranium enrichment' -- subject(s): Economic aspects of Nuclear energy, Nuclear energy, Uranium enrichment

'Nuclear power' -- subject(s): Nuclear energy, Technological innovations

'Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) power generation' -- subject(s): Electric power production, Magnetohydrodynamic generation, Magnetohydrodynamics