"But the White House has so far prohibited funding for HALEU from going to companies making the fuel out of nuclear waste. The Energy Department previously told HuffPost it could not guarantee that HALEU made from nuclear waste would meet the purity standards required for new reactors. "
This applies to Centrifuge not so for Laser enrichment because it targets U235 only, and besides GEH are part of the ARPA-E Curie program and are building something that measures assay results on a permanent basis.
https://www.ge.com/news/press-relea...n-arpa-e-funding-to-advance-used-nuclear-fuel
AND Besides GEH only recently received an NRC license to produce HALEU or LEU+ to 8% enrichment for it's Natrium reactors which of course can are a breeder reactor and can produce more Plutonium and other actinides than they consume, which of course reduces the waste in the US but also captures energy (up to 96% of the Uranium235) that was left in the UNF first time around, what is not to like about that?
It will save the US a great deal, and is the answer as to where they will get all of their Uranium 235 from and also it's HALEU and it is not 10 years away, they need it now!
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