POWER Magazine Blog :: Curmudgeon's View: Waste, DOE, and New Reactors
This involves chopping up spent fuel rods, chemically treating them to removed reactor-grade plutonium, and using that as nuclear fuel in sodium-cooled “breeder” reactors that produce more fuel than they use. … Along those lines, DOE has also announced $40 million in R&D money for a nuclear reactor technology that has been around for five decades, sucked up hundreds of millions of federal money, and failed to demonstrated anything approaching commercial viability. …
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