jim wrote:

"Pete C." wrote:

Sounds like the anti-nuke crowd is to blame since they have been
fighting against both a proper safe long term storage facility, as well
as reprocessing of the "spent" fuel.

Does that mean all of that spent fuel
would have been shipped to the US
if the US had been less negative towards nuclear power?

Who knows, it certainly could have been. There has been plenty of talk
of the US and Russia acting as nuclear fuel suppliers and reprocessors
to the world as a means to keep better control on the parts of the
process that could be used to produce weapons grade material.