New nuclear fuels and materials are foundational components of next-generation advanced nuclear reactors. These advanced nuclear reactors can help the U.S. mitigate climate change and remove carbon from the economy.

Our unique expertise and facilities create technologies to enable the treatment of used nuclear fuel and radioactive waste and generate advancements for nuclear nonproliferation.

Our pioneering pyrochemical processes recycle used nuclear fuel into new fuel and durable waste forms. Advanced molten salt technologies support advanced reactor designs and safety analyses.

Experimental and theoretical work focused on the development of novel separation methods applicable to the recovery of radioisotopes from targets, and to advanced nuclear fuel cycles.