Monique Verdin, "Headwaters : Tamaracks + Time : Lake Itasca" (2019), digital assemblage. Photograph taken in 2019; United States War Department map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi River.

Nuclear Energy at Tipping Point

February 9, 2018

2/9/18 – The United States is at a “tipping point” with its fading nuclear power sector, a federal official told a US congressional committee, adding that its future will depend on developing advanced reactors that are cheaper to build and safer to operate. Issues has recently taken several deep dives into these waters, with experts offering an even fuller roadmap for how to revitalize nuclear energy and explaining why it would be a strategic mistake for the nation to abandon its leadership in this important technology market to international competitors who are actively pushing ahead.