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The Next Phase of Restoring U.S. Nuclear Energy Leadership

The Next Phase of Restoring U.S. Nuclear Energy Leadership
Occasionally a new and noteworthy analysis intersects with emerging opportunities, and it produces insights that are valuable and forward-looking. That is the case with the release of Restoring America's Nuclear Energy Leadership and Exports, a new report authored by Paul Saunders, the President of the Center for the National interest, and published by the Energy Innovation…
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Opportunity to Overhaul the Value of Nuclear Policy NGOs

Opportunity to Overhaul the Value of Nuclear Policy NGOs
The non-governmental nuclear policy community is being pummeled by the twin crises of dramatic geostrategic change and drastically reduced funding. This has diminished the relevance of its research and withered its impact on real world nuclear policy making.  Cillian Murphy, the actor that portrayed Robert Oppenheimer in the Academy Award winning movie named for the…
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Trends In Nuclear Energy Expansion

Trends In Nuclear Energy Expansion
The enthusiasm for the expansion of nuclear energy has been significantly elevated since 25 nations at the COP28 climate meeting endorsed tripling the clean energy contribution of this technology by 2050. The question is whether this support can be sustained and turned into actual reactor deployments.  There are recent bright spots. These include the start-up of the…
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Where The U.S. Government Is Funding Nuclear Export

Where The U.S. Government Is Funding Nuclear Export
Four years ago, the Trump administration issued an analysis of the importance of restoring America’s civil nuclear competitiveness. One of its major recommendations was for the creation of “a whole-of-government approach to supporting the U.S. nuclear energy industry in exporting civil nuclear technology in competition with state-owned enterprises.” It has largely fallen to the Biden…
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