NEI Nuclear Notes

Here at NEI, it seems as if the first five months of the year has gone by in a blur. January featured Third Way's Advanced Nuclear Summit and Showcase . February was our annual Wall Street Briefing . March saw us participating in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory's Commission's Regulatory Information Conference . The Nuclear Industry Summit straddled March and April. And then the last two weeks of May rocketed past as we participated in a Department of Energy summit on preserving at-risk nuclear reactors , and then, just two days later, headed south to Miami for the 2016 Nuclear Energy Assembly . PREACH IT DON! #NEA16 #actfornuclear #climate pic.twitter.com/kbBWVSzTLZ — Nuclear Energy Inst. (@NEI) May 24, 2016 Not that we're complaining. Our industry is facing some strong headwinds , and while the future is bright with prospects for a number of advanced reactor designs , we need to #ActForNuclear now in order to preserve the current fleet and the benefits it contribu...

The American nuclear energy industry is heading to Miami this week for the 2016 Nuclear Energy Assembly  ( agenda ). The theme of the meeting is Delivering the Nuclear Promise , which is also the industry-wide effort championed by NEI that aims to advance safety, reliability and economic performance at U.S. nuclear power plants. We'll be live streaming two of the most exciting panels on May 24 on YouTube. First, at 11:00 a.m. EDT, we'll have a panel on  global climate issues  that will feature  Larry Makovich  of IHS CERA,  Jason Grumet  of the  Bipartisan Policy Center , Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, the former Secretary of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and  Doug Vine  of  C2ES . And then at 1:30 P.M. EDT we'll follow that up with a closer look at  new reactor development . That panel will be chaired by NEI Chief Operating Officer Maria Korsnick and feature Jacob DeWitte of Oklo , John Hopkins of NuScale Power ,...