Credit: Robb Kendrick, courtesy of the Texas A&M Foundation
McIntyre (working here in his lab with graduate student Kyle Damborsky and postdoctoral researcher Feng Lu) says ADSMS fission power could be integrated smoothly with the existing infrastructure at the 104 conventional reactors presently operating in the United States, using the spent nuclear fuel already stored there for fuel and augmenting the presently installed generating capacity without bringing any fresh fuel to the site for the next century.