Marissa Payton wrote:
....
...Unfortunately US
energy policy has been bad public policy for decades and no relief is in sight during
my lifetime.

Unless your lifetime is extremely short, there is at least _some_
prospect for relief in (moderately near) distant future...

http://www.nustartenergy.com/NewsCenter.aspx?Category=1

Closing the fuel cycle is still on the very far distant horizon it
seems, however.

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