reprocessing

A second or subsequent processing.

Noun

  1. A second or subsequent processing.
  2. The process of extracting useful or valuable materials from used nuclear fuel, mainly focusing on the recovery of fissile and fertile material for use in fresh nuclear reactor fuel, or, in some cases, the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
    • For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying...

Forms

reprocessings

Derived

eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of reprocess