A California-based start-up’s plans to develop a power plant that can turn nuclear waste into energy just took a big step closer to reality. The company, Oklo, got a permit in December to build the next-generation power plant at the Idaho National Laboratory, in Idaho Falls. The lab announced February 19 that it will also provide Oklo with fuel — the waste products of a nuclear reactor.
By Nathanael Johnson. Grist. February 20, 2020.
