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US / Nuclear Official Calls For End To Long-Running Impasse Over Spent Fuel

By David Dalton
10 June 2022

DOE’s Kathryn Huff also sounds warning over reliance on Russia
Nuclear Official Calls For End To Long-Running Impasse Over Spent Fuel
Kathryn Huff (right) is the US Department of Energy’s new assistant secretary for nuclear energy. Courtesy DOE.
The US needs to maintain its existing nuclear fleet with large-scale light-water reactors at the forefront of its carbon-free transition, but also needs to build advanced reactors and solve the impasse over what to do with spent nuclear fuel, Kathryn Huff, the Department of Energy’s new assistant secretary for nuclear energy, said.

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