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Fuel and waste no bar to US nuclear growth

Report finds that plentiful fuel supplies and temporary storage will buy decades of time to develop a longer-term strategy.

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Tollefson, J. Fuel and waste no bar to US nuclear growth. Nature 467, 376–377 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/467376a

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