Nuclear fuel reprocessing needs support, not subsidies: Areva exec

Loan guarantees are key to nuclear reprocessing, exec says

 

The push for advanced technology to reprocess used nuclear fuel needs a decisive U.S. policy that includes loan guarantees, said Alan Henson, Areva executive vice president of technologies and used-fuel management. His statement came in response to Marvin Resnikoff, senior associate of Radioactive Waste Management Associates, who told a subcommittee of the federal commission on nuclear waste that no company would develop reprocessing facilities unless it received federal supports. Platts