ANEEL: Thorium-based reactor fuel could revive Nuclear’s fortunes - Energy Post

ANEEL: Thorium-based reactor fuel could revive Nuclear’s fortunes - Energy Post: A public-private consortium backed by the U.S. DoE is developing a new nuclear fuel – a mix of thorium and uranium – that looks like a major advance on the fuels currently in use, says Jim Conca. Called “Advanced Nuclear Energy for Enriched Life” (ANEEL), it has a very high fuel burn-up rate (55,000 MWd/T) …