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$40M investment to spur new nuclear developments in Idaho and Wyoming
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that its Economic Development Administration (EDA) intends to award $31 million to the Intermountain-West Nuclear Energy Corridor (INEC) Tech Hub. The Idaho Advanced Energy Consortium (IAEC), the group that leads the INEC Tech Hub, subsequently announced that matching donations from its stakeholder partners will bring the total investment up to $40 million.
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The utility of 238Pu produced from 237Np irradiation depends on the amount of 236Pu present. Calculations of 236Pu produced by the (n,2n) reaction on 237Np indicate that light-water power reactors produce 238Pu containing 10 to 20 times as much 236Pu as that produced in the USAEC D2O-or graphite-moderated plutonium production reactors, and the liquid-metal fast breeders produce 300 to 400 times as much 236Pu as the production reactors.
