America’s Nuclear Revival Is Running Into a Fuel Supply Wall

The United States boasts the largest nuclear power production capacity in the world, but decades of insufficient funding and policy support is now posing an existential threat to the ageing sector. In the past decade, the United States has added just one new nuclear power plant to its fleet, while many more plants are drawing close to being decommissioned, at a time when clean, round-the-clock energy production has never been more needed.

The Trump administration has been bullish about restoring the country's nuclear energy sector to its former glory, but growing the country's nuclear energy capacity raises a new problem where to source the nuclear fuel to power it.