Would it make sense to embrace some sort of closed-fuel cycle, with limited reprocessing of spent fuel?

WSJ: What Should the U.S. Do With Nuclear Waste?

Creating international nuclear fuel banks and shared management of enrichment, reprocessing and spent fuel storage facilities would make nonproliferation sense as well as supporting civil nuclear power in energy-thirsty Asia.

WSJ: U.S. Disarmament Is Dangerous for Asia

The Obama Administration has dismissed spent-fuel reprocessing systems already used in France and Japan because of security and environmental risks.

FORBES: U.S. nuclear fuel rods to sit in pools -- like those that failed in Japan -- until 2050