Afer more than a decade o meetings, studies, and recommendations on the potential orrevitalizing the US nuclear power enterprise, today’s message rom the nuclear community isclear: unexpected new energy demands, and the unconventional business models that comewith them, offer the best prospect in decades or delivering on new nuclear’s promise. Ithese new opportunities are cultivated, they could restart a civilian nuclear power enterprisethat possibly could compete on cost and at scale with other sources o energy. The incomingpresidential administration is well positioned not just to study the problem but also to dosomething about it, but that will require clear leadership and accountability or the outcomes.
Changing the Landscape for New Nuclear Power (John Deutch, William Madia, Steven Koonin, James O. Ellis Jr.,and David Fedor)
Written by Berhanu Anteneh