U.S. concern over the long-term proliferation risk of nuclear waste isn't stopping countries from planning to extract plutonium from radioactive refuse to power a new generation of atomic reactors.
French, Japanese, Russian and South Korean officials lined up against their U.S. counterparts in September at the International Atomic Energy Agency, where two weeks of meetings on waste, proliferation and energy ended Monday in Vienna.
"We've made it pretty clear that we are not interested or supportive," U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said last week at a briefing.