DOE’s Kathryn Huff also sounds warning over reliance on Russia
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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