Jimmy Carter Killed This Technology 50 Years Ago. Congress Is About To Fund Its Revival.

Photo caption: President Jimmy Carter addresses the U.N. General Assembly in New York on March 17, 1977. Associated Press. Article by Alexander C. Kaufman. HuffPost – updated March 8, 2024.

The nuclear waste sitting at power plants across the United States contains enough energy to power the country for more than 100 years. But recycling spent uranium fuel was banned in 1977 because President Jimmy Carter feared that nuclear reprocessing could lead to more production of atomic weapons. […]

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