In a Jersey basement, teen scientist builds his own nuclear device. philly.com Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited the site of the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada on Monday. thegatewaypundit.com The team from the IAEA's Coordination Group for Uranium Legacy Sites (CGULS) spent just under two weeks visiting legacy sites, including exposed tailings bodies and remnants of uranium mills and other infrastructure, at Map 1-9, Degmay and Tashobar. The visit was supported by the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Agency of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan - the country's nuclear regulator - and site operator State Enterprise Tajredmet. world-nuclear-news.org The MBIR is a 150 MWt, sodium-cooled fast reactor and will have a design life of up to 50 years. It will be a multi-loop research reactor capable of testing lead, lead-bismuth and gas coolants, and running on MOX (mixed uranium and plutonium oxide) fuel. NIIAR intends to set up on-site closed fuel cycle facilities for the MBIR, using pyrochemical reprocessing it has developed at pilot scale. world-nuclear-news.org