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Climate and clean energy stakeholders gathered at this year’s Nuclear Energy Assembly (NEA) to discuss nuclear as a solution to the world’s trials of today and tomorrow—from struggling job markets in local economies and staggering prices at the pump to existential threats like the global climate crisis. But two topics featured prominently over the course of three days: energy security and coal-to-nuclear.

Since the crisis in Ukraine began, the United States has been rethinking how and if we do business with Russia. Right now, the United States receives about 20 percent of its enriched uranium from Russia, and the nuclear energy industry is committed to ending imports of Russian uranium services. To do so, however, the private sector and government must work together to ensure the establishment of a secure, reliable fuel supply chain.

Nuclear power plants produce a vital resource in the global fight against COVID-19: Cobalt-60. This powerful isotope has sterilized billions of pieces of medical equipment in hospitals on the front lines of the pandemic.

NEI President and Chief Executive Officer Maria Korsnick delivered the following remarks at NEI’s annual State of the Nuclear Energy Industry.

Nuclear energy has been powering our Navy for over sixty years, and new innovations are poised to continue this legacy, including mobile reactor technology that can help fuel our troops on the ground. Advanced nuclear designs provide a wide range of new applications—such as making power portable—and Project Pele is a program exploring the deployment of mobile nuclear reactors.

Reuters held an SMR & Advanced Reactor conference in Atlanta where industry leaders discussed how advanced nuclear will lead the wave of next-gen clean energy technologies—with financing playing a critical role. Maria Korsnick, president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute, spoke on a panel about getting stakeholders to the table and creating public and private partnerships to invest in new designs.

Today, the U.S. nuclear energy sector directly employs nearly 100,000 people. The supply chain—including fuel, manufacturing, and maintenance—supports four times that many jobs. These high-paying jobs anchor careers and communities.

Nuclear energy leads the way in clean, reliable, affordable power as America’s largest source of carbon-free energy. Studies have shown it to also be one of the safest forms of energy. We asked the expert, John Kotek, NEI’s senior vice president of policy development and public affairs, about just how safe nuclear power is.

Nuclear energy’s critical role in the world’s net zero goals has never been clearer. And voices in favor of nuclear have never been louder. Join us from June 20–22 in Washington, D.C., for this year’s annual Nuclear Energy Assembly (NEA).

United States Senate confirmed Dr. Kathryn Huff to be assistant secretary of energy at DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy.