Ah I see. I feel like I've read about it somewhere, that it gets re-enabled in a hidden way at some point. Maybe in some forum post? Not sure.
That explains the oddity I guess.
Though I don't see why anyone would recycle uranium 238 considering 1) it's a crazy bottleneck and you have to scrap everything else to get enough of it and 2) that this recipe is for 235 which - afaik - can't be converted to plutonium anyways and compared to 238 you actually do have too much of 235.
Well in short: the scrap should give more U238, it's a heavy bottleneck. Currently I can't even produce plutonium because the tiny bit of U238 I get is converted to the science pack. (or I guess maybe the science pack should take less)
The red circuit situation got a bit better after that balancing for it recently though IMO it's still a bit too high.