Fuel Cycle Strategy for a Secure and Scalable Nuclear Energy Future

As energy demand increases across much of the world — driven in part by growth in artificial intelligence, next-generation manufacturing, and transportation electrification — nuclear energy can play a key role in propelling an advanced global economy.

How governments and industry handle the nuclear fuel cycle and manage spent nuclear fuel will play a large role in determining whether efforts to scale nuclear energy succeed or stall. Policies that promote the fastest, most cost effective, and most secure path to scaling nuclear energy can unleash an affordable new wave of reliable heat and electricity. Missteps could saddle nuclear energy with an overwhelming set of unnecessary costs that prevent rapid progress.