A Texas A&M professor, in collaboration with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, received a Department of Energy grant to develop a system in engineered barriers to isolate and contain nuclear fuel waste.

Thorium-based nuclear fuel pellets will be manufactured on campus at the Nuclear Engineering and Science Center.

The team is part of a collaboration with the goal of designing, licensing and commissioning the first university-based molten salt research reactor.

The method developed Texas A&M researchers could help reduce nuclear waste.