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reprocessings

reprocessings is the plural of reprocessing.

Meaning of reprocessing

Noun

reprocessing (countable and uncountable, plural reprocessings)

  1. A second or subsequent processing.
  2. (uncountable, nuclear physics) 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 electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the...2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20

Questions about reprocessings

What is reprocessings the plural of?
Reprocessings is the plural of reprocessing.

Words near reprocessings in the dictionary

  1. reprocessability
  2. reprocessable
  3. reprocessed
  4. reprocesses
  5. reprocessing
  6. reprocessings
  7. reprocessor
  8. reprocessors
  9. reproclaim
  10. reproclaimed
  11. reproclaiming

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