COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Texas A&M researchers have been awarded $5. 4 million in federal money to study whether used nuclear fuel can be recycled into new reactor fuel.U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy James Danly announced the Department of Energy grant Thursday during a visit to campus.

The award goes to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES).

The project, "Turning Nuclear Waste into Fuel with a Thorium Molten Salt Reactor," is led by Dr. Lin Shao, a professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering.