Feds Funding New Advanced Nuclear Reactors
October 19, 2020
The Department of Energy has announced plans to help fund development and construction of two new types of nuclear reactors—said to be simpler, cheaper, and safer than conventional ones—in hopes of jumpstarting the US nuclear power industry. To be co-funded by private companies, the efforts follow a broader road map for nuclear rejuvenation laid out in Issues by a leading energy scholar, who added that this innovation agenda “would be a clear departure from more than three decades of controversy, timidity, and indecision in US nuclear energy policy.”