ARKANSAS, USA — An informal group of Arkansas political, utility and academic leaders is peering into the future of green energy, and it may well be nuclear.
The group’s leader, state Rep. Jack Ladyman of Jonesboro, sponsored a law in the recent legislative session, Act 259, requiring the state to investigate the technical and economic potential for recycling spent nuclear fuel rods.
Those rods would come from the nation’s conventional nuclear reactors, including Arkansas Nuclear One on Lake Dardanelle. The recycling, if it stands up to inquiry, would employ a tested but little-used process and create fuel for small nuclear reactors whose zero-emissions power could help rescue the warming planet.
To read more on nuclear fuel rod recycling, our content partner Arkansas Business has the full article here.
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