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Not many issues have bridged the left-right political divide in Washington, D.C., the way that advanced nuclear technology has. This bipartisan congressional support in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives will help advanced reactors—and the clean energy future they promise—become a reality.
As the internet prepares to raid Area 51 for aliens, NASA is using nuclear energy to go to deep space, seeking signs of extraterrestrial life on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
If we look at the map of billion-dollar summer weather events—including droughts, flooding, severe storms, tropical cyclones, hurricanes and wildfires—we can see that the Southeast, Midwest, Southern Plains and Mid-Atlantic regions have suffered through a significant number of them. Luckily, these states are home to many of the nuclear power plants in the nation.
Efforts to protect the climate took a major step this week as Ohio became the latest state to take steps to preserve its nuclear plants, ensuring that its largest source of emissions-free power stays on the grid.
Over the past 30 years, Korsnick has carved a path from engineer, to senior reactor operator, to site vice president, to president and CEO in a male-dominated industry.
Kathy Baughman McLeod, director of the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, joins Monica Trauzzi in this episode of “Off the Menu" at Stellina Pizzeria in D.C.’s Union Market neighborhood.
The Ohio legislature voted today to approve HB 6, a measure that keeps Ohio’s nuclear power plants in operation. The following statement can be attributed to Maria Korsnick, president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute:
NEI's statement on President Trump's Decision on Uranium Miners' 232 Petition
Maybe it was inevitable that when 20 candidates appear together in the span of four hours total that no one issue was going to get an in-depth treatment. Leading up to the two-night series last week, concerned citizens like myself wondered where climate and energy would fall into the first round of the Democratic presidential debates.
NEI’s Matt Crozat joined the Cato Institute’s Libertarianism.org podcast focusing on the HBO miniseries Chernobyl and recent discussions of the Green New Deal.
While Capitol Hill debates legislation supporting new reactors, international nuclear security experts have confirmed that advanced designs will provide a secure energy option in the fight against climate change.
It’s not debatable: climate change is a problem and we’ll need major changes in our energy system in years to come. How will the Democratic presidential candidates see the issue when they gather on Wednesday and Thursday nights for the first debates?