No replacement yet for disgraced spent fuel lead, head of DOE nuclear energy office says

PHOENIX — The Department of Energy has yet to select a candidate to lead its ongoing effort to find a willing community to host a federal interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, the agency’s nuclear power head said here this week.
Although DOE is no…

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