Purdue engineer offers help to manage nuclear waste

The question of how to dispose of nuclear waste in the United States remains unanswered half a century after the first power reactor opened.

As the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada remains controversial and slowed by legal issues, President Barrack Obama has appointed a commission to make recommendations on how to dispose and store nuclear waste from energy to defense uses.
Last week Audeen Fentiman, Purdue University professor of nuclear engineering, testified to that group -- the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future -- in Washington, D.C.
She was representing the American Nuclear Society's Special Committee on Used Nuclear Fuel Management Options and offering a summary of its upcoming final report that will be considered by the Blue Ribbon Commission.
Fentiman, who is also Purdue's associate dean of engineering, is considered an expert on nuclear waste management and has co-authored a textbook on the subject.
The American Nuclear Society's final report will be submitted in January. The Blue Ribbon Commission's final report is due by January 2012. More at:
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