Die erste privat finanzierte US-amerikanische Kernkraftstoffrecyclinganlage, die am Oak Ridge zu einem Preis von 1,6 Milliarden US-Dollar eröffnet werden soll
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Oklo Inc., a nuclear technology company, has announced plans to build the nation’s first privately funded facility to recycle used nuclear fuel in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
The project, which involves an investment of up to $1.68 billion, is expected to create over 800 jobs.
The new facility will take used nuclear fuel and recover the usable material to create new fuel for advanced reactors, like Oklo’s Aurora powerhouse.
Something that needs to last thousands of years seems like a job that is better suited for the government, not a private for profit company that surely doesn’t have the business plan to keep the place running that long. Especially as it doesn’t seem like the US is interested in building new nuke plants and we aren’t building that many new icmbs, nuclear bombs and reactor ships
That is some super deadly legacy for tens of thousands of years to come.
Pretty wild to think we’re finally seeing private investment in nuclear fuel recycling here in the US. For decades we’ve just been stockpiling waste at reactor sites with no long-term plan. If Oklo can actually make this work, it’s a game changer—less waste, more usable fuel, and maybe even a stronger case for nuclear as a clean energy source.