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Waterford ― With the topic of spent nuclear fuel storage of great interest to the region, the country’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy visited here Tuesday to deliver the message that spent nu.
Katherine Huff, who leads the U.S. Department of Energy’s office of nuclear energy, told a group of industry stakeholders in Waterford that achieving aggressive state and federal green energy and carbon elimination goals is dependent on deployment of a new generation of smaller, safer and more efficient reactors. But she said new or even continuing nuclear generation is jeopardized by the government’s inability to locate national repositories for highly radioactive spent fuel