....South Korea wants the ban lifted, arguing that it desperately needs to reprocess its accumulating spent fuel from nuclear reactors to reduce its stored waste. It also wants to use reprocessing and enrichment to secure fuel supplies for its expanding nuclear power industry. The country aspires to meet 60 percent of its electricity needs with nuclear power by 2030 and become a global exporter of nuclear reactors.
The United States supports a revised agreement that “will reflect the increased importance that the Republic of Korea is playing in the global nuclear energy arena,” the chief United States negotiator, Robert J. Einhorn, said Monday in Seoul, using South Korea’s formal name......
