Nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant)
1In the meantime, used nuclear fuel, some of it decades old, languishes in holding tanks.
2North Korea yesterday told the US that it had finished reprocessing used nuclear fuel into bomb-grade plutonium.
3All reactors were shut down in 2011, but cooling is still needed for the used nuclear fuel stored on the site.
4It pledges not to enrich uranium or reprocess used nuclear fuel, and is obliged to import all fuel for its nuclear reactors.
5Used nuclear fuel is reprocessed to extract the remaining uranium and plutonium generated during irradiation of the fuel in the reactor.
Translations for used nuclear fuel