Three local leaders (Tri-City Herald, Feb 19, 2010) are advancing concern about violation of law with regard to the present federal administration’s canceling of funding for Yucca Mountain nuclear material storage licensing.   Missing from this gray cloud observation is the silver lining that the US now has an opportunity to revise all used nuclear fuel policies.  The national commercial used nuclear fuel inventory can now be considered for re-cycling in order to gain a majority portion of the 95% remaining energy available.  This concept was missing from the position of the leaders.  Hanford has 2100 metric tons of government used fuel and several hundred tons of commercial fuel in area inventory, sufficient to continue closed cycle electrical generation for decades.   But, this option requires forward thinking about our long term energy needs rather than whining about something that is not causing harm in current storage.