I agree, so Congress’ action should not only address Yucca, but it should remove Carter’s foolish law as well. And instead of reinventing the wheel, the U.S. contractors for the reprocessing facilities should partner with others, from other countries already doing it (most likely France).
One has to wonder if Carter was really, in a back handed way trying to kill the nuclear power industry by the problems from not reprocessing the spent fuel.
Oh, I don’t wonder. Three Mile Island scared the crap out of Carter. We nearly had a Fukushima situation. Hydrogen venting did occur and luckily the plant had power to run coolant pumps. I was just out of High school at the time and my neighbor ran an experiment exposing photo film to rain water. The exposed film showed fogging from radiation all the way here in VT.
IIRC, Carter’s ban on reprocessing fuel was just an executive order, not a law. It can and should be Trumped.