DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy is investing $19M to jumpstart a domestic nuclear recycling industry. (ANS)
The awards task five companies—Alpha Nur, Curio, Flibe, Oklo, and Shine—with developing tech that shrinks the nation’s waste stockpile while cutting reliance on foreign uranium.
The projects range from recovering high-enriched uranium for SMRs (Alpha Nur) to optimizing molten salt pyroprocessing (Oklo) to developing modified PUREX methods that prevent plutonium from being weaponized (Shine).