After 23 years, Idaho National Laboratory reopened Tuesday. What changed? Trump.
I’m glad to hear this. I worked out at INEL back in the early 1980s. They were doing lots of great research.
“Know Nukes!”
Federal officials have restarted an eastern Idaho nuclear fuel testing facility amid efforts to boost the nation’s nuclear power generating capacity and possibly reduce concerns about nuclear power safety.
The U.S. Department of Energy said the facility at the Idaho National Laboratory about 50 miles west of Idaho Falls began operating Tuesday for the first time since it went on standby status in 1994.
“It went well,” John Bumgardner, director of the laboratory’s Transient Testing Program said Wednesday. “The reactor and the facility as a whole, as well as our trained personnel, all performed as expected.”
Testing of the facility’s equipment began Tuesday, Bumgardner said. Nuclear fuel testing is expected to begin next year.
The Energy Department proposed resuming operations at the Transient Reactor Test Facility in 2013 as part of former President Barack Obama’s plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by generating carbon-free electricity
with nuclear power. Nuclear power currently produces about 19 percent of the nation’s energy.Energy department officials hope the testing facility will help researchers create fuels that leave behind less nuclear waste, that are harder to turn into weapons and that are less likely to lead to a reactor core meltdown.
Via the AP