SHINE has partnered with newcleo, a developer of advanced nuclear reactors and fuel, to advance innovative technologies for the recycling of used nuclear fuel, the company announced recently.

According to a release, the companies will see how SHINE could supply newcleo with materials from the used nuclear fuel of traditional reactors to manufacture MOX fuel and how SHINE could recycle spent fuel from newcleo’s reactors.

“Recycling spent nuclear fuel solves two problems at once,” SHINE CEO and Founder Greg Piefer said in a statement. “It addresses decades of accumulated waste and removes the fuel supply constraint on expanding the reactor fleet. Working with newcleo connects our capabilities directly to reactors designed to run on recycled fuel. That closed fuel cycle effectively makes nuclear energy renewable and fundamentally changes its economics.”

The two companies are beginning technical scoping this year with joint federal funding proposals to follow.