11.   Radioactive waste is simply spent fuel.

12.   ...flasks for the transport of spent fuel.

13.   However, it also reflected uncertainty over the costs of reprocessing spent fuel and decommissioning nuclear plants.

14.   The complex will reprocess spent fuel from nuclear power stations in the UK, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden, Italy, Canada and Spain.

15.   So it was heartening to read an in-depth article on the transport of spent nuclear fuel from Torness to Sellafield.

16.   The second supporter was Councillor Struan Stevenson from Kyle and Carrick District Council who gave a detailed account of spent fuel transport in the Municipal Journal.

17.   It will reprocess spent fuel from nuclear power stations in the UK, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden, Italy, Canada and Spain.

18.   Reprocessing is a highly technically demanding and extremely expensive operation, involving the extraction of uranium and plutonium from the spent fuel.

19.   Long-term storage is favoured by environmentalists as less nuclear waste is produced, although spent fuel cannot be stored indefinitely.

20.   The Bulgarian government has, however, approached the EC for a financial aid package to enable the construction of a repository for spent fuel.