News Release 72
Nuclear Renaissance - Real or Imaginary?
February 27, 2009

Norm Hansen attended the IEEE Fox Valley Subsection meeting on “Nuclear Renaissance - Real or Imaginary?" at the IIT West Campus in Wheaton. Mr. Fancher, IEEE Chicago Section, was the speaker and discussed the industries plans to build nuclear power plants in the United States and other countries.

While the United States has stopped building nuclear power plants other countries have been building them and reprocessing the spent fuel. With the government canceling Yucca Mountain facility for nuclear waste storage, reprocessing may be a better alternative since only two to three percent of the nuclear fuel is actually used. The meeting was held on February 25, 2009 and approximately 150 people attendance.