It got sold down the river by leftist politicians/bureaucrats (particularly Harry TraitorReid) who burden the planning, construction, and operation with conflicting and unobtainable requirements. The Demonicrats and RINOs also switched the 10,000-year demonstrated containment for a spent fuel repository to a 1,000,000-year demonstrated containment.
And the financial industry provided their share of complicity when they dumped the cost overruns and financial collapse of the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS, pronounced "Whoops") fiasco into the municipal bonds of peoples' retirement accounts.
Ask where the tens of billions of dollars in nuclear electric energy surcharges (aka taxes) which were to fund the nuclear repository construction, monitoring, and final closure over the next 10,000 years.
Washington, DC's answer: GONE, suckers!!
All true, and I think Hollywood whackos deserve some blame for Jane Fonda’s stupid movie that scared the s#it out of people and that idiotic “no nukes” movement that followed which poisoned the well so to speak, for a generation. Now of course kids are indoctrinated even more severely against nuclear power with the climate change garbage piled on top. Look at Germany for an example of “green” madness. This is one “transformation” that has been imposed after traditionalists with common sense lost control over the educational system and what little influence on the media we might have had.
I’ve idly wondered if there might be a more effective way to package nuclear fuel that could help avoid meltdowns, and it sounds as if the Chinese have done it.
One way to tell if someone is truly a climate change advocate is to examine their position on nuclear power. If they are for it and want to expand it, then they pass the test. If they are only for solar and wind, then they are democrats looking to socialize the country. Nuclear should be on the agenda if you think CO2 is the problem.
BTW, CO2 is plant food. But thats an other post.
I believe Centrus Energy (USEC) operates the old archaic gaseous diffusion enrichment plant in Paducah Kentucky. and Urenco (German) has a centrifuge in Louisiana. Also I think Centrus's prototype centrifuge in Portsmouth Ohio has been mothballed. Iran undoubtedly has better technology and capacity than does the United States when it comes to uranium enruchment.