This is very true.
Laws passed during the Carter Admin makes extracting U235 from spent fuel illegal.
“Laws passed during the Carter Admin makes extracting U235 from spent fuel illegal”
No , Carter nor any other POTUS has never passed a law Congress does that. Carter signed an executive order ending the NRC authorization of any reprocessing activities. This stood for decades, the Don has issued new EO to the DOE to eventually move the stored spent fuel from private storage to a government-owned, privately operated reprocessing and recycling facility. Carter’s traitor a$$ can’t stop the USA anymore. F him and F Clinton for cancelling the functional INF fast reactor.
Which btw the scientists tried to meltdown. First then pulled all the control rods out. The heat rise and the Doppler coefficient of metallic fuel kicked in and shut down the keff under 1. Then they shut off the coolant pumps and again the Doppler coefficient shut it down and the pool of molten sodium sitting in a air cooled guard vessel just sat there using natural air convection to take the decay heat away. Then they didn’t the absolute insanity of running the reactor up to 100% power and then pulled all the rods out AND shut the coolant pumps off. This would wreak a PWR or BWR reactor. Nope the INF just shut itself down and passively cooled itself down. Game set match no more tech is needed this is as safe as one can ask for a reactor you literally cannot melt it down physics says nope nope nope. Clinton killed it to save like 30 million in funding per year...no he killed it became it was unlimited energy at 1.3 breed ratio, melt down proof and only sent fission products to decay to under 500 year
And burned every element heavier than uranium while getting 83 terajoules per kilo of natural uranium. 100 times what a water reactor does. At those burn up levels you can mine seawater at $300 per kilo for uranium and it is still cheaper per BTU than a PWR by a factor of 50 it’s equal to 5 CENTS per barrel of oil on a BTU for BTU equivalent. The Chinese have proven $150 per kg of seawater uranium at the prototype scale and plan for $83 kg at commercial production. There is 4.5 billion tonnes of uranium in the ocean and 46 trillion tonnes in the top 5km of earth’s granite crust. Every single gram is accessible with the Chinese tech that grabs down to single part per billion levels 100% recovery rates in under 24 hours of time simply a game changing tech. Granite is 2-8ppm not ppb you can solution mine while producing geothermal heat via well bores. You get 15 megawatts per bore of geothermal and multiple tonnes per year of solution uranium yields per bore. The uranium is 83 terajoules per kilo in a fast reactor so millions of times the energy of the geothermal heat the heat is just a useful byproduct of the solution mining. HCL or SO4 1 molar plus F or NA dissolves all silicates you get not only uranium but also aluminum, titanium, magnesium, potassium, iron too. If you don’t want to break the silicates uranium will still come up with just hot water as it’s soluble in water as is you just get more doing silica leaching.
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/9-key-takeaways-president-trumps-executive-orders-nuclear-energy