Draft Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Summary
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The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Program, a United States (U.S.) Department of
Energy (DOE) program, is intended to support a safe, secure, and sustainable expansion of
nuclear energy, both domestically and internationally. Domestically, the GNEP Program would
promote technologies that support economic, sustained
production of nuclear-generated electricity, while
reducing the impacts associated with spent nuclear fuel
disposal and reducing proliferation risks. DOE envisions
changing the U.S. nuclear energy fuel cycle1 from an
open (or once-through) fuel cycle—in which nuclear
fuel is used in a power plant one time and the resulting
spent nuclear fuel is stored for eventual disposal in a geologic repository—to a closed fuel
cycle, in which spent nuclear fuel would be recycled to
recover energy-bearing components for use in new
nuclear fuel.
