Presentation by Ron Pope and Yung Liu of Argonne National Laboratory to the World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS) Workshop on Security of Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel

The United States makes decisions regarding the domestic uses of nuclear energy and the nuclear fuel cycle primarily based economic considerations, domestic political constraints, and environmental impact concerns. Such factors influence U.S. foreign policy decisions as well, but foreign policy decisions are often more strongly determined by national security considerations, including concerns about nuclear weapons proliferation and nuclear terrorism.