DOE Should Consolidate Research on High-Burnup Fuel Storage, NWTRB Report Says

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The Department of Energy needs to consolidate its agency-sponsored research on high-burnup spent nuclear fuel storage, the federal government’s nuclear waste panel said in a new report published this week.Although DOE funds “a variety of organizations” and their research on the viability of storing and transporting high-burnup fuel (HBF), there’s not currently a single compendium of all findings, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB) said in its evaluation of DOE’s HBF program Monday.