SCR 9

This concurrent resolution urges the President and Congress to explore and support policies that would establish domestic facilities for reprocessing and recycling spent nuclear fuel, addressing the federal government's failure to implement a permanent storage solution despite collecting over $30 billion from electric customers since 1983. The resolution highlights that advanced reprocessing technologies like pyrochemical processing could extend uranium resources, reduce nuclear waste volume and storage time by nearly 1,000 times, and provide fuel for next-generation reactors, while noting that no such reprocessing facilities currently operate in the United States. As a non-binding resolution, it expresses the legislative body's position that developing domestic nuclear fuel recycling capabilities would better serve the public interest than the current situation where nearly 100,000 tons of spent fuel remains in temporary storage without a permanent disposal solution.