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A new frontier for nuclear power?

APR 16, 2007
Physics Today
Santa Fe New Mexican : New Mexicans are very familiar with this country’s leading proponent of nuclear power -- U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, a Republican from Albuquerque.Domenici is not shy about his vision: An advanced research center at Los Alamos National Laboratory to study new technology; a fuel recycling center to take partially spent nuclear fuel and reprocess it into something that can be burned; and a burner reactor that would produce electricity from this newly processed fuel.
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