ARCO – The Idaho National Lab joined with the U.S. Department of Energy and other entities Tuesday morning to celebrate the recent delivery of advanced nuclear fuel to the INL’s Transient Reactor Test Facility.

The delivery, which consists of four large canisters, took place on Nov. 5. It’s a major milestone for Project Pele, a mobile microreactor prototype designed to provide resilient power for military operations.

Jeff Waksman, the principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and the Environment, tells EastIdahoNews.com the reactor is intended to be a demonstration model to perfect the process for building a more advanced reactor in the future.

“We announced something just a few weeks ago called the Janus Program (named after the Roman God of beginnings,

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