A process for the recovery of useful uranium from spent fuel. It is also called pyroprocessing or electrorefining. It is very similar to electroplating. Used fuel attached to an anode is suspended in a chemical bath and an electric current then dissolves the used fuel and plates out the uranium and other actinides on the cathode. These extracted elements are then sent to the cathode processor where the residual salt from the refining process is removed. Finally, the remaining actinides and uranium are cast into fresh fuel rods and the salt is recycled back into the electrorefiner.