Additionally, he said, if the United States pursues pyroprocessing, it will have to share the technology with other countries leading to proliferation of this form of reprocessing technology.
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However, the Energy Department has a prototype facility at the Argonne West laboratory in Idaho for research into so-called " pyroprocessing, " a form of fuel reprocessing.
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In pyroprocessing industries such as refractories or cement manufacture, the loss on ignition of the raw material is roughly equivalent to the loss in mass that it will undergo in a kiln.
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Pyroprocessing had been part of the government's breeder reactor program that was canceled in 1994 and is now used to stabilize old reactor fuel from the breeder program and prepare it for disposal, said Paul Pugmirer, a spokesman for the laboratory in Idaho.
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Due to pyroprocessing the total volume of true waste / fission products is 1 / 20th the volume of spent fuel produced by a light water plant of the same power output, and is often all considered to be waste . 70 % of fission products are either stable or have half lives under one year.
