Transcript: Highlights From the Show's Open ( Also Featuredīenjamin Reinke, senior director for corporate strategy at X-energy, a nuclear reactor and fuel design company. Former assistant secretary at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy. Author of " Uncertainty Underground." ( Baranwal, vice president of nuclear energy and chief nuclear officer at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), a non-profit organization. Former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ( Macfarlane, director of the University of British Columbia’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. GuestsĮrnest Moniz, professor of physics and engineering systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Today, On Point: Nuclear power and America's clean energy future. “I don't think they can know right now how much these new plants will cost, whether they will have a reliable fuel supply," Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said. "We're going to need a whole lot of labor for this project.”īut not everyone is so sure about the promise of nuclear power. “We are planning to be moving dirt as early as 2023," Benjamin Reinke, senior director for a nuclear reactor and fuel design company, said. There's even government funding lined up to put shovels in the ground for new test plants. "We have in fact invested a lot of money in the research and development of those.” “We are very bullish on these advanced nuclear reactors," energy secretary Jennifer Granholm said at the recent UN Climate Conference. And tucked into the act: the Biden administration's belief in the importance of nuclear power. President Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law this week. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Increasing solar energy production in the United States from last years level of 4% is part of President Bidens effort to combat climate change.
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