| By Big Radio News Staff |
Janesville nuclear radioisotope producer SHINE is partnering with a tech firm that aims to use recycled radioactive waste as energy for exploration of space and the ocean.
SHINE Research and development director Ross Roedl says SHINE has announced a partnership to sell recycled nuclear radioisotope Strontium-90 to Zeno Power.
Zeno, a contractor for NASA and the U.S. Navy, would use SHINE’s recycled nukes to keep electronic equipment running in remote, frigid environments of deep space or the ocean floor.
Roedl says SHINE would build a nuclear waste recycling facility by 2030, but it won’t likely happen in Janesville. Roedl says it’s more likely SHINE would build such a facility next to an existing nuclear power plant to have immediate access to nuclear waste.
SHINE originally launched in Janesville with plans to commercially produce the nuclear medicine molybdenum-99 at a first-of-its-kind nuclear particle accelerator plant.
Since then, SHINE has begun to expand how it would use its particle accelerator technology and radioisotope production.
It’s added a cancer drug division, a nuclear fusion energy division, and a nuclear waste recycling division.
