MIT nuclear fuel expert has new economic ideas to deal with it

Posted on December 1, 2011 by dyurman| 

Colocating all back-end facilities will increase community acceptance because of job creation

 Charles Forsberg, executive director of the MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study, writes in the November 2011 issue of the Amercian Nuclear Society’s Nuclear News magazine that a new business model is needed to manage spent nuclear fuel and repositories for long-term storage of highly radioactive waste.