NEWS: Is the US nuclear push headed in the wrong direction?

We’ve got a shrinking window to become the first country to commercially recycle spent nuclear fuel, a new EIRP report argues. Currently, 94K mT of used fuel sits in storage across 30+ states…but EIRP noted that modern pyroprocessing could cut high-level waste volumes by over 80%. 

Meanwhile, the NRC has voted to phase out its agency-led mock attack inspections at operating reactors. After 2028, plants will run their own exercises under NRC observation. A safety advocate called it a “dog-and-pony show, akin to a professional wrestling match,” and found it worrying amid ongoing security threats to US infrastructure.