UN atomic expert downplays China nuclear 'breakthrough'

UN atomic expert downplays China nuclear 'breakthrough'

January 17, 2011 Enlarge

Nuclear reactors at a US power plant. China has become one of only a handful of countries that can reprocess spent nuclear fuel but is not yet capable of doing so on an industrial scale, a UN atomic expert said Monday.

China has become one of only a handful of countries that can reprocess spent nuclear fuel but is not yet capable of doing so on an industrial scale, a UN atomic expert said Monday.