[Cyber Liberty]

My guess is there is no commercial viability to reprocessing. Since the Carter days, we’ve choked off nuclear power, so it would be “Reprocess fuel for what reactors??”

[rottndog]

Commercial viability is guaranteed simply based on the number of spent fuel rods being stored around the country. It's far more expensive to store and monitor them than it would be to pay someone to take them for reprocessing. And there are decades worth of spent fuel rods that need to be reprocessed. Also, the reclaimed uranium would go right back into the market place. Current nuc plants still require fuel replenishment—that uranium still has to come from somewhere.

Of course I think that's part of the rub preventing reprocessing...there are vested financial interests in the uranium supply business that would be hurt by an increased supply on the market. And I'm sure those very same interests have poured a great deal of money into politician's pockets to keep the status quo.