Project Omega and Idaho National Lab Announce ARPA-E Award to Advance Used Nuclear Fuel Recycling

The United States currently lacks an industrial capability to recycle UNF. Project Omega's ARPA-E award, which falls under the CURIE (Converting UNF Radioisotopes Into Energy) program, aims to ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Is there another option to get the nuclear waste out of San Onofre?

Some 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste is beached at San Onofre. The spent fuel held in more than 120 stainless steel canisters at the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, lodged ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

To win on nuclear energy, the United States should lose reprocessing

The siren song of spent nuclear fuel reprocessing beckons again, selling a sweet melody that, actually, threatens to stymie hopes of a nuclear energy revival in the United States. A tantalizing ...
Reuters

FACTBOX-Timeline of U.S. nuclear reprocessing

Aug 17 (Reuters) - Although no U.S. company now reuses its nuclear waste, the country has a long-running history with the technology. Following are timeline highlights of the U.S. inquiry into ...