end the ban on spent nuclear fuel reprocessing.

The ban on spent nuclear on spent nuclear reprocessing arose out of President Carter's unwillingness to listen reason from technical professionals about the benefits of reprocessing. The main arguments against reprocessing included proliferation and economic feasibility concerns. These concerns have been roundly rebuffed since then and reprocessing would actually likely decrease the risk of proliferation. Economically the cost of disposing of nuclear waste has grown astronomically thereby increasing the favorability of reprocessing. Restarting our reprocessing abilities would provide thousands of new jobs, increase our energy independence, decrease the amount of high-level radioactive waste and increasing the stability of our cleanest energy producing sector.