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reprocessing capacities of 1,200 tons per year for metallic spent fuel of AGRs,
100 tons per year capacities for CANDU spent fuel and 100 tons per year capacities
for spent FBR fuel are in operation. As about 25 tons of spent uranium fuel are
unloaded per GW(e) and year from a Light Water Reactor this world wide
reprocessing capacity would be sufficient for spent fuel of e.g. 174 GW(e) LWR.
This is about half of the presently available LWR capacities in the world.
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