Democratic (socialist/fascist) President Carter—the self-proclaimed “energy president”—unilaterally and permanently suspends the recycling of spent nuclear fuel rods in “breeder reactors” which generate more radioactive material than is consumed: “[W]e will defer indefinitely the commercial reprocessing and recycling of the plutonium produced in the U.s. nuclear power programs.”

       NOTE: This placed the nation at a severe competitive disadvantage with nations such as the Republic of France, the Empire of Japan and the socialist Federal Republic of (West) Germany.  It also creates a logistical nightmare in having to store nuclear “waste” in underground facilities.

       [added 11/20/2022] Thanks to Bill Holmes for this entry.