HM 1137

This Florida House Memorial (HM 1137) urges the President and Congress to modify federal regulatory policies to allow states to conduct feasibility studies on reprocessing spent nuclear fuel for new energy generation. The memorial highlights that nuclear reprocessing technology, which is widely used in other countries, can extract approximately 30% more energy from spent fuel while reducing high-level nuclear waste volume by 80%, but notes that federal regulations have led to the closure of all U.S. civilian reprocessing facilities. By requesting this regulatory adjustment, Florida seeks the authority to explore whether reprocessing its nuclear waste could provide additional clean energy generation while reducing waste storage needs, though the memorial only asks for permission to study feasibility rather than actually implement reprocessing operations.