Empty nuclear waste shipping containers sit in front of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. AP/Susan Montoya Bryan
Tennessee will be the sight of America’s first privately owned nuclear fuel-recycling plant, converting tons of radioactive waste into usable fuel.
Oklo Inc., a nuclear technology company, announced on Sept. 4 that it will build a $1.68 billion advanced nuclear fuel-recycling facility on a 247-acre site in Oak Ridge. The plant will recycle spent fuel from nuclear power plants, and is projected to create more than 800 new jobs in the process.
