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Nuclear fuel cycle reimagined: Powering the next frontiers from nuclear waste
In the fall of 2023, a small Zeno Power team accomplished a major feat: they demonstrated the first strontium-90 heat source in decades—and the first-ever by a commercial company.
Zeno Power worked with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to fabricate and validate this Z1 heat source design at the lab’s Radiochemical Processing Laboratory. The Z1 demonstration heralded renewed interest in developing radioisotope power system (RPS) technology. In early 2025, the heat source was disassembled, and the Sr-90 was returned to the U.S. Department of Energy for continued use.
Xing Z. Li, Zhan M. Dong, Chang L. Liang, Han Yi, Yun P. Fu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 61 | Number 1 | January 2012 | Pages 446-451
Other Concepts and Assessments | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A13461
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Resonant fusion model has been justified by six fusion reaction data. This resonant fusion model predicts that the fusion products should be dependent on the resonance energy. When resonance energy level is near thermal energy, this resonance would pick up only the fusion channel with no neutron or gamma emission. Thus we might expect that a resonance energy level for fusion reaction near zero energy would imply a clean nuclear energy using hydrogen and condensed matter nuclear science.