Admiral Frank L. (Skip) Bowman
President and Chief Executive Officer
Nuclear Energy Institute

“Clean Energy for Texas: Why Texas Needs Nuclear Energy”

Dallas Friday Group
Dallas, Texas
July 27, 2007

Remarks as prepared for delivery

 
Thank you for the invitation to address the crucial, related issues of climate change and increasing energy requirements. I will discuss how clean nuclear energy can partner responsibly with renewable energy sources (such as wind and solar) to realistically meet these growing energy requirements after all conservation and efficiency measures are exhausted. I salute Mike Sloan’s passion to augment the wind power resources of Texas as much as possible.

But, along with renewables, nuclear energy is an indispensable part of the future energy portfolio of Texas, if we are going to be environmentally responsible and produce the baseload electricity required to drive modern economic growth.

Let me focus on three topics:

First, the importance of emission-free nuclear energy in generating electricity for our country.

Second, nuclear energy in Texas today, the electricity challenges that Texas faces tomorrow, and the steps that Texans have taken, and plan to take, to solve them.

And, third, two key challenges confronting the future of nuclear energy—used nuclear fuel and financing.

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