The dry and wet recycling processes have been developed for 100% recycling of Clean Reject Oxide (CRO)generated during the fabrication of MOX fuel, as CRO contains significant amount of plutonium. Plutoniumbeing strategic material need to be circumvented from its proliferation issues related to its storage forlong period. It was difficult to recycle CRO containing higher Pu content even with multiple oxidationand reduction steps. The mechanical recycling comprising of jaw crushing and sieving has been coupled with thermal pulverization for recycling CRO with higher Pu content in dry recycling technique. In wetrecycling, MicroWave Direct Denitration (MWDD) technique has been developed for 100% recycling of CRO. The powder prepared by dry and wet (MWDD) recycling techniques was characterized by XRD and BET techniques and their effects on the pellets were evaluated. (U,21%Pu) 2 pellets fabricated from virginpowder and MWDD were characterized using optical microscopy and α-autoradiography and the resultsobtained were compared.