DOE Names Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Idaho as Nuclear Campus Finalists
The U.S. Department of Energy has picked Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Idaho as initial contenders to host Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, according to Power Magazine.
The campuses are structured as voluntary federal-state partnerships, Power Magazine reported, and are designed to co-locate fuel fabrication, enrichment, spent fuel reprocessing and waste disposition within integrated, full-cycle nuclear ecosystems.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright signed non-binding memorandums of understanding with the states, according to Power Magazine. The MOUs carry no binding commitment, leaving the five states as finalists rather than confirmed hosts.
Bundling enrichment and fuel fabrication alongside reprocessing and waste disposition at a single site is the defining feature of the campus concept as described by Power Magazine, which places back-end steps that are typically separated by geography and by regulatory track inside one footprint.
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