UNR’s Professor Chidambaram Partners with Idaho National Lab, Penn State on Nuclear Reprocessing Project
University of Nevada, Reno, Chemical & Materials Engineering Professor Dev Chidambaram is collaborating with Idaho National Laboratory and Pennsylvania State University to make materials to be used in a specific part of a process that would remove the uranium from our existing stockpile of used fuel from nuclear power plants and make them usable for next-generation nuclear reactors. The United States currently has a stockpile of 90,000 metric tons of used fuel and generates about 2,000 additional metric tons per year, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
The University specializes in this niche area of reprocessing nuclear waste, Chidambaram said, because of its unique ability to test the process and study the materials “all under one roof” — the roof of his Materials and Electrochemical Research (MER) lab.
Chidambaram and his collaborators are about eight months into the $3.6 million project funded by the DOE through its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, designed to advance energy technologies. The University is the academic lead on the project, with a share of $1.3 million.
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