This article outlines a Government Accountability Office report on continued barriers reactor developers perceive when interacting with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
With a federal promise to take highly radioactive spent fuel from nuclear plants still unfulfilled, closed reactors are dipping into funds set aside for their eventual dismantling to build waste storage on-site, raising questions about whether there will be enough money when the time comes.
China, India, and Pakistan gradually expanded their nuclear arsenal, adding more weapons to their nuclear stockpiles last year, a global security watchdog reported.