The extent of U.S. control depends on «consent rights» agreements which are included in bilateral agreements
on nuclear trade between the United States and other nations.
The influential business, energy and industrial strategy committee said that any gap between the UK leaving a European atomic power treaty and entering into secure alternative deals would «severely
inhibit nuclear trade and research and threaten power supplies».
Ex-up, or ex-vessel, means, in the jargon of
the nuclear trade, melted down nuclear fuel that has burned its way out of the reactor.
The nuclear trade group Nuclear Matters filed a similar report from IHS Markit focused on its plants in PJM, though the grid operator itself has repeatedly said reliability and fuel security are not at risk today.