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Zeno Power's first full-scale radioisotope power systems will be fuelled by strontium-90 material recycled from a legacy radioisotope generator under a new public-private partnership with the US Department of Energy Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management. The company has also announced a partnership with Westinghouse to fabricate the heat sources for its systems.
Promotions made as environmental cleanup activities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex are ramped up.
Jay Mullis oversees cleanup of nuclear waste from World War II and the Cold War in Oak Ridge. It's hazardous, expensive work, and won't be done soon.
The $550M Environmental Management Disposal Facility will enable cleanup activities, demolitions at Y-12 and ORNL to continue.
Tennessee Tech and United Cleanup Oak Ridge have partnered to build a pipeline of skilled workers for environmental cleanup, launching a new nuclear engineering degree program in fall 2024.