U.S. Panel Shifts Focus to Reusing Nuclear Fuel

OXON HILL, Md.

The board heard presentations from three major nuclear companies on strategies for sorting out the components of nuclear waste: burying some, recovering others for use as fuel and putting some in reactors to be transformed into materials that are easier to handle.

But developing such plans would take decades, experts said, and deciding which path to follow would depend in part on the kind of rock chosen for burial.