The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $38m (€38.5m) for a dozen projects that will work to reduce the impact of light-water reactor used nuclear fuel disposal.
The projects, led by universities, private companies and national laboratories, were selected to develop technologies to advance used nuclear fuel recycling, reduce the volume of high-level waste requiring permanent disposal, and provide safe domestic advanced reactor fuel stocks.
The DOE said nuclear energy generates nearly a fifth of the US’s electricity and accounts for half of all domestic clean energy generation.
While used nuclear fuel, sometimes referred to as spent nuclear fuel, is created during the process of generating nuclear energy, clean energy generated from this fuel would be enough to power more than 70 million homes.
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