A New Approach to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Best Practices for Security, Nonproliferation, and Sustainable Nuclear Energy

Kelsey Hartigan · Corey Hinderstein · Andrew Newman · Sharon Squassoni

Feb 2015 · Rowman & Littlefield

About this ebook

The Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Center for Strategic and International Studies joined to launch the New Approaches to the Fuel Cycle project. This project sought to build consensus on common goals, address practical challenges, and engage a spectrum of actors that influence policymaking regarding the nuclear fuel cycle. The project also tackled one of the toughest issues—spent nuclear fuel and high level waste—to see if solutions there might offer incentives to states on the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle and address the inherent inertia and concerns about additional burdens and restrictions that have stalled past efforts to improve the robustness of the nonproliferation regime. This report presents the group’s conclusions that a best-practices approach to the nuclear fuel cycle can achieve these objectives and offer a path to a more secure and sustainable nuclear landscape.

About the author

Kelsey Hartigan is a program officer with the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). Corey Hinderstein is vice president of international programs with NTI. Andrew Newman is a senior program officer with NTI. Sharon Squassoni is senior fellow and director of the Proliferation Prevention Program at CSIS.