Nuclear REFUEL Act of 2025

This bill tells the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to use a simpler licensing process for future facilities that recycle certain types of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants into materials that can be reused as fuel for generating electricity. It applies only to facilities that use a specific recycling method that does not separate plutonium from other radioactive elements. Right now, there are no commercial facilities like this operating in the United States, but the bill changes which set of rules the NRC would follow when reviewing license applications for such facilities in the future, using a process with fewer steps than the one that would otherwise apply.

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