The U.S. government, as part of its policy of revitalizing nuclear energy, has been very active in recent months, signing nuclear energy-related agreements with some of its top allies: the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Japan. The agreement with the United Kingdom will fast-track civil nuclear deployment and streamline the regulatory review for new reactors.…
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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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