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Chris Wright: “We banned reprocessing foolishly way back in the 1970s.”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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🇺🇸 Conference with Chris Wright, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Published | Video Starts at 27:29

… in the United States and we're trying to stand it back up and we have many efforts in that front and Orano is a key partner in doing just that. We banned reprocessing foolishly way back in the 1970s. All the first run fuel rods are in and we don't have permanent repositories. So they're in, they're in swimming pools or in dry cast storage. We want to have a nuclear renaissance. (27:29–27:34)

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Asserts that the U.S. banned nuclear fuel reprocessing in the 1970s.

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