Zeno Power's first full-scale radioisotope power systems will be fuelled by strontium-90 material recycled from a legacy radioisotope generator under a new public-private partnership with the US Department of Energy Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management. The company has also announced a partnership with Westinghouse to fabricate the heat sources for its systems.
Tennessee Tech and United Cleanup Oak Ridge have partnered to build a pipeline of skilled workers for environmental cleanup, launching a new nuclear engineering degree program in fall 2024.