Top 9 Nuclear Waste Recycling startups

Updated: April 12, 2024

Nuclear waste recycling startups are pioneering advanced technologies such as advanced reprocessing methods, innovative fuel fabrication techniques, and efficient transmutation processes to effectively and safely recycle nuclear waste, extracting valuable materials, reducing the volume and toxicity of waste, and contributing to the development of sustainable and efficient nuclear energy systems.
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Country: France | Funding: €500M
Orano is focusing its attention on the recovery of nuclear materials and the management of nuclear waste to generate safe, low-carbon electricity. With significant expertise in the nuclear fuel cycle, they offer customers tailor-made solutions for every stage of nuclear power generation, from mining, conversion, enrichment, recycling, logistics, and engineering to decommissioning and dismantling.
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Country: UK | Funding: $433.5M
Newcleo is developing the latest generation of nuclear reactors providing a path to combatting both climate change and existing nuclear waste. It is working on so-called Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and wants to use so-called MOX technology to make it possible to recycle spent uranium from conventional nuclear power plants.
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Country: USA | Funding: $36.9M
Zeno is developing next-generation radioisotope power systems that generate carbon-free, resilient power for decades. It also has an Air Force contract to build a satellite powered by nuclear waste
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Country: USA | Funding: $22.6M
Innovative startup with an equitable and environmentally protective solution for nuclear waste and defense waste storage or disposal
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Country: Switzerland | Funding: CHF15.1M
Transmutex develops technology designed to reduce the stockpile of nuclear waste-based energy.
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Country: USA | Funding: $5.5M
Transatomic Power is a nuclear reactor design company offering a waste-annihilating molten salt reactor.
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Country: USA | Funding: $170K
Oklo is building an always on, container-sized, truly carbon-free and emission-free nuclear generator. Oklo's reactors can convert used nuclear fuel into clean energy.
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Country: USA | Funding: $113.5K
Alpha Nur is closing the loop on how nuclear fuel is used. At the intersection of sustainability and national security, we stand as a nexus for next-gen nuclear development.
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Country: USA
Curio wants to solve the nuclear waste problem while also making valuable products out of the used fuel, including fuel for next generation reactors and isotopes valuable for space batteries and medical processes