Marissa Payton wrote:
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Cogent summary of many valid points elided for briefness...

The national energy strategy for the United States could look radically
different, but public policy for decades has set stage for the current mess,
and it will continue to get much worse.

Thanks in large part to the former "nuclear technician" in the White
House who killed reprocessing and thus left US w/ the current open fuel
cycle debacle and failed nuclear proliferation policy to boot.

There is at least some hope on the horizon in this venue at least as
there have been bona fide licensing applications filed by several
nuclear utilities within the last six months or so...

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