Nuclear battery developer Zeno Power is to make a "multi-million dollar" investment to get priority access to americium-241 supplies from Orano's la Hague recycling site in France.

Zeno Power has signed an agreement to acquire nuclear waste that it can repurpose to power long-duration and deep-space missions.

This summer, a report commissioned by the Idaho National Lab (INL) recommended NASA take a new approach to developing space nuclear power systems.

Zeno Power, a cutting edge nuclear company, is making batteries powered with Strontium 90 for niche deployment cases: the moon, the arctic, and the seafloor.