Recapturing U.S. Leadership in Uranium Enrichment

By (author) George David Banks, Michael Wallace

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Publication date:

19 December 2013

Length of book:

24 pages

Publisher

Center for Strategic & International Studies

ISBN-13: 9781442228023

The United States is at risk of finding its nuclear weapons capabilities severely weakened by the absence of an available capability to enrich uranium. International legal obligations prohibit the United States from using, for military purposes, foreign-produced enriched uranium or uranium enriched here in this country by foreign-source technology. Efforts to deploy a next-generation American enrichment technology must succeed so that our nation has the ability to address the forthcoming shortage of this strategic material. This national security requirement could be met with little cost to taxpayers if the federal government implemented policies that ensure a strong U.S. enrichment industry.