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What is Spent Nuclear Fuel?

What were you doing in the early 1950s? At that time, the United States was beginning to prove that nuclear energy could be used for peaceful purposes. In the years since, many applications for nuclear power have been discovered and developed. Nuclear reactors now are used to generate electricity and to produce special materials that cannot be obtained in any other way for medical and commerical use.

Do you have unanswered questions about nuclear fuel?

What is nuclear fuel and how does it become "spent"?
Why does it require special handling?
What happens to it when it is used up?

This website follows nuclear fuel through its life cycle to provide answers to these and other questions you may have.

Information Owner: Sheryl Morton - NSNFP Staff, http://nsnfp.inel.gov/mailFrm.asp?r=poc, 208-526-8247.
Web Contact: Dean Frickey, http://nsnfp.inel.gov/mailFrm.asp?r=web, 208-526-0680.

Date Last Modified: Thursday, June 15, 2000