DOE plans to make Nuclear Energy recyclable.

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IDAHO FALLS – The D-O-E has drafted a plan to help supply large amounts of energy by using nuclear power and then recycling it to be used again.
This would be a more efficient way to use nuclear fuel and it will also be economically preferred.

“The power demand in the U.S., the electricity demand is increasing the environmentally impact statement we’re assuming a 1.3 percent increase and with that we’re going to need new ways to generate electricity,” Ray Furstenau, from Department of Energy.

Nuclear power is just one of the ways that the DOE plans to supply that electricity demand

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