the united states currently lacks both a supply of high -- haleu uranium, and a process to make haleu for advanced reactor designs. advanced reactor start-up cores require a high assay, lower enriched uranium. at the end of navy fuels' life, it contains highly enriched uranium with an average enrichment of 80%. current operating naval reactors have the potential to create a total of 100,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel, and the department of energy estimates that the disposal of this spent nuclear fuel will cost about $100 billion. however, advanced nuclear reactors have the potential to reuse this spent nuclear fuel and to reduce the overall disposal costs. h.e.u. repurpg for materials like spent naval fuel can be done using hybrid processes that use advanced dry head-in technologies followed by material recovery, which creates the fuel for our new advanced reactors. repurpg this spent fuel has the potential of reducing waste that would otherwise be disposed of at taxpayers' expense. approximately one metric ton of h.e.u. can create four usable tons for our new reactors. i encourage my