Issue Briefs, News and Analysis
Department of Energy Budget Request for FY 2008 - Nuclear Non-Proliferation Highlights
Posted: February 23, 2007
The President released his budget request for federal agencies on February 5, 2006. Following is the summary of the relevant nuclear non-proliferation programs in the Department of Energy’s budget proposal for FY2008
Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing: US Policy Development
Posted: December 8, 2006
Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, Anthony Andrews (laying out the timeline of US policy on reprocessing)
Graph representing Department of Energy/Argonne National Laboratories proposal for reprocessing and transmuting nuclear waste as part of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership proposed in February 2006
Posted: September 11, 2006
A graph representing Department of Energy/Argonne National Laboratories proposal for reprocessing and transmuting nuclear waste as part of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership proposed in February 2006
House Energy & Water Appropriations FY 2007 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Summary
Posted: June 6, 2006
The House Energy & Water FY 2007 Appropriations bill contained two significant milestones for nuclear non-proliferation efforts, and in particular for minimizing the threat of nuclear terrorism:
Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Accident at Sellafield, UK
Posted: April 28, 2006
Britain’s only nuclear fuel reprocessing plant (Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant-THORP) has been closed since April 2005 due to a massive accident involving a pipe failure that spilled 83,000 liters of a solution containing uranium and plutonium dissolved in nitric acid into a sealed room, known as a feed clarification cell.
Commercial Spent Fuel Management, a presentation by Dr. Tom Cochran of the Natural Resources Defense Council
Posted: December 21, 2005
In his presentation at the National Academies’ Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board Meeting, December 6, 2005, Tom Cochran critiques the proposal for a closed fast reactor fuel cycle for transmutation of waste.
Side-by-Side Comparison of FY2006 Budget Request and Appropriations for Spent Fuel Disposal and Reprocessing
Posted: December 9, 2005
This fact sheet was prepared by Michele Boyd of Public Citizen. Download File...
Reprocessing: Why we can and should wait a presentation by Dr. Frank von Hippel
Posted: December 9, 2005
In his presentation Dr. Frank von Hippel of Princeton University comments on Dr. Philip Finck's proposal in favor of reprocessing and describes the obstacles and proliferation risks of commercial spent fuel reprocessing.
Funding for commercial spent fuel reprocessing in the FY 2006 Energy & Water Appropriations
Posted: December 9, 2005
Congress appropriated a total of $130 million for commercial spent fuel reprocessing in FY 2006: $80 million for reprocessing R&D and $50 million for the Department of Energy to begin the siting process and to prepare an implemtation plan.
Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA)'s Statement on the Conference Report on the FY 2006 Energy & Water Appropriations Bill, November 9, 2005
Posted: November 12, 2005
While praising the deletion of funds for a nuclear bunker buster, Rep. Markey criticized the funding and provisions related to commercial spent fuel reprocessing.