Tag Archives: nuclear security

Reframing Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Policy

A longer version of this article was published by the Center for the National Interest and it can be found here. For decades, a third rail of US nuclear power policy has been reprocessing spent fuel and extracting the plutonium. The country has alternately supported and suspended reprocessing over the past decades, and now the pendulum seems to…
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Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation

As the Preventing Nuclear Anarchy report featured in our Spotlight makes clear, the unsettled state of global affairs, intensifying geopolitical tensions, technology advancements, and the erosion of the nuclear nonproliferation regime has increased interest in the potential value of possessing nuclear weapons in some countries, including some staunch U.S. allies in Europe, North East Asia, and the Middle East.…
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Strengthening American Nuclear Energy Competitiveness

 A longer version of this article was published by The Center for the National Interest and it can be found here. The Trump administration’s strategy for achieving America’s domination of the global nuclear energy market is coming into focus. But its ultimate effectiveness remains in question. A first step has been the preservation (so far), in the Big Beautiful Budget…
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Advanced Nuclear Companies: Funding & Expected Commercial Operation (ECO) Timelines

Small Modular and advanced nuclear reactors have received significant attention over the last few years. The U.S. government has invested billions in these technologies and their fuel. Congress has instructed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to streamline the evaluation of their safety, which is acting on this instruction. And Big Tech hyperscalers have looked to them…
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