New home for American spent nuclear fuel in...Mongolia?

"May 9 (Reuters) - Japan and the United States plan to jointly build a spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Mongolia to serve customers of their nuclear plant exporters, pushing ahead despite Japan's prolonged nuclear crisis, the Mainichi daily said on Monday.

A Trade Ministry official said Japan, U.S. and Mongolia officials, at a meeting shortly before Japan's March 11 earthquake, informally discussed possible construction of a nuclear waste storage facility for countries with nuclear power plants but no spent fuel storage capability of their own.

He said there were no concrete plans at this time but the ministry would consider such a project if Mongolia were interested. "

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/09/energy-nuclear-mongolia-idUSL3E7G80HD20110509

Mongolia sees a goldmine in selling reprocessed MOX on the global market. We're more than happy to pay them to take this valuable resource, while increasing the risk of nuclear proliferation.