As the Preventing Nuclear Anarchy report featured in our Spotlight makes clear, the unsettled state of global affairs, intensifying geopolitical tensions, technology advancements, and the erosion of the nuclear nonproliferation regime has increased interest in the potential value of possessing nuclear weapons in some countries, including some staunch U.S. allies in Europe, North East Asia, and the Middle East.…
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South Korea Is Risking Its Nuclear Success
A longer version of this article was published by The Center for the National Interest and it can be found here. South Korea is blowing a big opportunity to participate in the U.S. nuclear energy buildout, and time is not on its side. To achieve the Trump administration’s objective of beginning construction on 10 new large reactors by…
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Bridging the Artificial Intelligence-Nuclear Energy Divide
A longer version of this article was published by The Center for the National Interest and it can be found here. The hope that new nuclear energy can be quickly synced with rapidly expanding artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is currently running out of phase with reality. The data center explosion is the most recent…
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The Trump Nuclear Energy Executive Orders: The Positive, The Problematic, and the Implausible
President Trump has issued four expansive Executive Orders on civil nuclear energy aimed at reestablishing the United States as a dominant developer, deployer, and exporter of large and small reactors. There are many positive and innovative aspects of the directives including declaring reactor development a national security priority, focusing on deployment over R&D, and strengthening…
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