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No, it was scuttled because it made no economic sense. In the US, Carter's executive order was lifted a few years later by Reagan, but no civilian reprocessing occurred. Separated plutonium has negative value -- it adds more cost to fuel element manufacture than it saves in enriched uranium cost.


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