sequence of industrial operations through which the nuclear fuel may pass, such as mining, extraction, conversion, enrichment, fabrication, utilization, reprocessing, refabrication and radioactive waste disposal, a cycle comprising all of the operations from the mining and milling of uranium, through conversion, enrichment and fuel fabrication, to spent fuel storage and ultimate disposal of reprocessing and recycling of valuable materials and disposal of radioactive wastes, tööstuslike toimingute jada, nagu kaevandamine, ekstraheerimine, konversioon, rikastamine, valmistamine, kasutamine, ümbertöötamine, taasvalmistamine ja jäätmete ladustamine, läbi mille võib liikuda tuumkütus