Question

A- what does the term reprocessing of nuclear fueld mean?

B-what danger is associated with it?

Answer 1

Ans. A

Nuclear reprocessing is emerges to chemically separate and recover fissionable plutonium from irradiated nuclear fuel. It involves number of process , whose chaneges with time. Previousl was used solely to extract plutonium for producing nuclear weapons. The reprocessed uranium, which constitutes the bulk of the spent fuel material, can in principle also be re-used as fuel, but that is only economical when uranium prices are high.

Ans B.

It involves air pollution, Long term radioacive waste, discharge into water, and create several Health problem.