Argonne, Fermilab awarded $10M for spent fuel transmutation research

June 9, 2025, 9:30AMRadwaste Solutions
Argonne physicist Michael Kelly loads a superconducting cavity into a large furnace. (Photo: ANL)

Argonne National Laboratory said it has secured just over $10 million from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) for two research projects investigating the transmutation of spent nuclear fuel into less radioactive substances.

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