Norb Saber works on an electrorefiner, a device that removes unburned fuel and long-lived radioactive wastes from spent reactor fuel. Electrorefining is a key step in an Argonne-developed reactor technology that can burn long-lived wastes as it generates electricity. The remaining nuclear wastes would be as safe as the natural ore they came from after only 400 years.

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