Chinese scientists have mastered the technology for reprocessing fuel from nuclear power plants, potentially boosting the supplies of carbon-free electricity to keep the country's economy booming. The breakthrough will extend by many times the amount of power that can be generated from China's nuclear plants as fissile and fertile materials are recovered to be new fuel. Several European countries, Russia, India and Japan already reprocess nuclear fuel the actual materials used to make nuclear energy to separate and recover the unused uranium and plutonium, and to reduce waste. China overtook the United States as the world's largest energy consumer in 2009, years before it was expected to do so. But it is heavily dependent on coal, a major pollutant it has 13 nuclear power plants.
Hopefully the Chinese will use this new technology for peaceful purposes. Secondly every picture I see of China it is so dirty and smoggy they need to get off the coal because it is polluting the entire country. Finally the Chinese are taking environmental issues seriously.
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