Nuclear power may be the answer to our energy problems, but if that's true, why are we tossing out the fuel rods when they still have some life?
NY-based BLSK Energy has signed a CRADA with Argonne National Laboratory to commercialize pyroprocessing technology that ...
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US nuclear recycling plant could extract 100 times more energy from uranium fuel
A US startup has joined forces with the nation’s first national laboratory to recycle ...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has ramped up efforts to explore recycling spent nuclear fuel (SNF), or used nuclear fuel (UNF), from the nation’s fleet of light water reactors (LWRs), doling out $38 ...
In the early days of atomic energy, the federal government powered up an experimental reactor in Idaho with an ambitious goal: create a “wonder fuel” for the nation. The reactor was one of the ...
Editor's Note: This story was originally printed in the December 2005 issue of Scientific American magazine. Despite long-standing public concern about the safety of nuclear energy, more and more ...
After decades of hesitation, the United States is reconsidering nuclear fuel reprocessing—reviving the debate about proliferation risks, cost, technology competitiveness, and energy security. For ...
Such an increase would be even higher if it were not for the country’s 20 nuclear reactors, which generated a little more than one-third of the country’s total electricity in 2008. According to that ...
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