VTR

Tickner, Valory and keyboardist Stevie “Keys” Roseman also created the band VTR and released its sole album, “Cinema,” in 2005.

The Versatile Test Reactor, or VTR, would be the first new test reactor built in the U.S. in decades and give the nation a dedicated “fast-neutron-spectrum” testing capability.

The VTR—also known as the Versatile Fast Neutron Source—would be the first reactor DOE has built since the 1970s.

In contrast, the VTR would use a fuel richer in uranium-235 that would generate more high-energy neutrons as it “burned.”

Some critics of the nuclear industry claim the VTR is way to keep that dream alive—although VTR developers do not plan to breed and reprocess fuel.