Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Nuclear Recycling Efficient Fuels Utilizing Expedited Licensing Act of 2025” or the “Nuclear REFUEL Act of 2025”.
Nuclear Recycling Efficient Fuels Utilizing Expedited Licensing Act of 2025
A BILL
To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to modify the definition of production facility to exclude an equipment or device capable of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel in a manner that does not separate plutonium from other transuranic elements.
Sec. 2 Exclusion from definition of production facility
Section 11 v. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2014(v)) is amended, in the second sentence, by striking “separating the isotopes of uranium or enriching uranium in the isotope 235” and inserting “(A) separating isotopes of uranium or enriching uranium in the isotope 235; or (B) reprocessing spent nuclear fuel in a manner that does not separate plutonium from other transuranic elements”.