They're getting a lot more money to develop new types of reactors, as well as to reprocess fuel that's in reactors now and use it again.

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Japan has a nuclear cooperation agreement with the U.S. dating back to the 1980s that allows Tokyo to reprocess the spent fuel from its nuclear reactors.

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In 2006, the administration created the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, an international program among nuclear nations that, among other things, seeks to develop ways to reprocess spent nuclear fuel.

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Iran has actually rejected offers to either supply it with prepared nuclear fuel (and the associated offers to reprocess it once used) just as it has rejected the offers to build the enrichment and recycling plant to civilian standards.

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In exchange, the EU diplomats publicly assured the Iranians that, their countries would reward improved behavior (such as Tehran's agreement not to reprocess nuclear reactor fuel and its signing up to - and implementing - a new, more intrusive inspection accord with the IAEA) with still more Western nuclear technology.

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