Scientists at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, have developed a groundbreaking method to reuse nuclear waste, a discovery that could potentially revolutionize the nuclear industry.

UNLV researchers are on the cutting edge of techniques that can reduce the amount of waste left over from the process of creating nuclear fuel and weapons by rendering those toxic waste products both safe and useful.

UNLV researchers have learned nuclear waste could be reused as an energy source.

When the federal government needed a method to reuse toxic waste, it called one of the country’s leading labs in Las Vegas. The breakthrough the grad students made started murmurs of a radioactive renaissance.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) has lost more than $16 million in federal research funding, according to David Hatchett, the university’s vice president of research.

On Monday, Edwin Oh led UNLV administrators on a tour through the lab where he and his colleagues study sewer water.