Spent nuclear fuel is still a problem

Thirteen years ago, after the disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, a colleague and I wrote up the problem vexing the U.S. nuclear power industry: how to handle thousands of tons of spent fuel rods.
    
I recently learned that only a little has changed in the years since, throwing some cold water on all the excitement about new nuclear power deals. You can read more in this week's column via the link below.  
    
This week I also linked to a story about training problems at Citigroup, plus a milestone for a go-to retirement expert at Boston College

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A U.S. nuclear-power renaissance is plunging ahead without a long-term solution for some 92,500 metric tons of spent fuel piled up at power plant sites around the country. Another 2,000 metric tons of it is added every year, according to trade group Nuclear Energy Institute. 

That's even before recent deals for new nuclear capacity built on the voracious power needs of AI foreseen by Microsoft in its recent deal with Constellation Energy, and a deal between Alphabet's Google and Kairos Power. And just this morning Amazon.com said it signed three agreements on developing small modular reactors, while the International Energy Agency said the world is on the brink of a new age of electricity with fossil fuel demand set to peak by the end of the decade,
    
Click the button below to read my column this week on the challenges facing the industry and how a long-term solution won't happen quickly..

Click on map for source document, page 5 of a Department of Energy report

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