In the United States, while there is no explicit law banning nuclear fuel reprocessing, the country currently does not practice commercial reprocessing due to policy decisions, primarily concerning proliferation concerns, meaning that spent nuclear fuel is not recycled and is instead stored for eventual disposal in a deep geologic repository; the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates any future reprocessing activities if they were to be permitted
Encourage fuel reprocessing as part of the nuclear fuel life cycle, with anti-proliferation safeguards in place.