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This year’s hurricane season is expected to be extremely active. For years, nuclear plants have safely operated during hurricanes and other extreme weather events, but how will the next generation of reactors reliably power areas through natural disasters?

Demand is growing for electricity and for water, and the world needs a solution that preserves the climate. A new reactor will cut the cooling water used by more than 90 percent.

The Senate voted today to confirm Mark Menezes as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy.

The global transition to a low-carbon economy will involve trillions of dollars. For some it will be an expense; for others, revenue. And U.S. exporters of nuclear energy hardware and expertise could see well over $1 trillion in business by mid-century.

NEI statement on new DFC policy to allow funding of new nuclear energy projects.

Although the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published their special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 ºC nearly two years ago, the climate crisis is gaining increasingly more bipartisan attention in Washington, D.C. Mitigation strategies that support all forms of carbon-free energy generation, including nuclear, have gained notable popularity across the political spectrum

Stories of innovation in the nuclear industry often focus on the advanced reactors under development, but there’s a thriving culture of innovation and excellence across all plants in the U.S. fleet. NEI’s annual Top Innovative Practice (TIP) Awards recognize those employees whose new ideas and approaches make the sector more efficient, cost competitive and even safer.

When you consider that nuclear energy is America’s largest carbon-free electricity source, it is encouraging the House committee proposes a technology-neutral approach to decarbonization that recognizes nuclear energy’s important role in addressing our climate challenges

If there was ever life on Mars, nuclear technology will help find it. You may recognize nuclear energy as the workhorse of the electric grid, but innovation has made the technology essential for tasks well beyond electricity generation – and beyond our planet, too. NASA says it is on track to meet the schedule dictated by the dance of the planets, and launch its new rover Perseverance sometime between July 17 and August 11.