US awards contracts to process HALEU fuel for high-tech reactors
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My view is that Joe Biden will go down as the greatest President on Energy Issues, even if he embraced the waste that solar and wind energy represents, since he took a fresh look to identify what works to address extreme global heating, building on the legacy of the Obama administration which pushed for the building of the Vogtle reactors, and importantly, got them built.
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about HALEU, since I personally believe that the best path to high burnups will be ternary plutonium/thorium/(depleted or once through) uranium fuels in heavy water reactors, and possibly light water reactors as well, but in the end fast and epithermal systems, the latter with multiply cycled plutonium to exploit the neutron multiplicity of Pu.
That said, the outstanding should not be the enemy of the excellent, and we need to build reactors of all types and all kinds with all kinds of fuels, and anyway, who cares what I think?
Thank you President Biden for your outstanding record on nuclear energy, the last best hope of the environment.
Good news.